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Belshazzar
Belshazzar is the king of Babylon who appears in Daniel 5. He is remembered for the banquet at which the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the wall of the royal palace, and for losing his kingdom and his life that same night.
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- Belshazzar's FeastBible
Belshazzar's Feast is the event recorded in Daniel 5, in which handwriting appeared on the wall during a banquet at which Belshazzar, king of Babylon, drank from the vessels of the Temple in Jerusalem and praised idols. The king was slain that same night.
- Daniel 5Bible
Daniel 5 tells how Belshazzar, king of Babylon, held a feast using vessels from the temple in Jerusalem, saw handwriting appear on the wall, and heard Daniel interpret it; that same night the kingdom fell.
- Darius the MedePeople
Darius the Mede is the king who, according to the book of Daniel, received the kingdom after the death of the Babylonian king Belshazzar. He is known as the king who had Daniel cast into the lions' den. Because he is not attested in sources outside the Bible, his identity is the subject of several competing views.
- Mene, Mene, Tekel, UpharsinBible
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin is the Aramaic inscription that the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the palace wall during the feast of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, in Daniel 5. Daniel interpreted it as God's declaration of judgment: the kingdom had come to an end and would be divided.
- Daniel 8Bible
Daniel 8 records Daniel's vision of a ram and a male goat in the third year of King Belshazzar, together with its interpretation by the angel Gabriel. The chapter features a "little horn" that defiles the sanctuary and the "two thousand and three hundred days."
Verses in the King James Version 8, showing 6
- Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
- Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
- Daniel 5:9
Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
- Daniel 5:22
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
- Daniel 5:29
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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