(a) Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine (b) before the thousand. (a) Daniel recites this history of King Belshazzar, Evilmerodach's son, to show God's judgments against the wicked for the deliverance of his Church, and how the prophecy of Jeremiah was t... [ Continue Reading ]
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his (c) 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. (c) Meaning his grandfather.... [ Continue Reading ]
They drank wine, and praised the (d) gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. (d) In contempt of the true God they praise their idols, not that they thought that the gold or silver were gods, but that there was a certain strength and power in them to do them good, whic... [ Continue Reading ]
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over (e) against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. (e) That it might the better be seen.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his (f) knees smote one against another. (f) So he that before condemned God, was moved by this sight to tremble for fear of God's judgments.... [ Continue Reading ]
The king cried aloud to bring in (g) the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. [And] the king spake, and said to the wise [men] of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [have] a chain of gold about his neck,... [ Continue Reading ]
[Now] the (h) queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: [and] the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: (h) That is, his grandmother, Nebuchadnezzar's wife, who because of her a... [ Continue Reading ]
There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, [I say], thy father, made master of the (i) magicians, astrolog... [ Continue Reading ]
I have even heard of thee, that (k) the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. (k) For the idolaters thought that the angels had power as God, and therefore held them in the same estimation that they held God, thinking that the spi... [ Continue Reading ]
O thou king, the most high God gave (l) Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: (l) Before he read the writing, he declares to the king his great ingratitude toward God, who could not be moved to give him the glory, considering God's wonderful work toward his grandf... [ Continue Reading ]
(m) Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. (m) After God had for such a long time deferred his anger, and patiently waited for your repentance.... [ Continue Reading ]
And this [is] the writing that was written, (n) MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. (n) This word is written twice because of the certainty of the thing, showing that God had most surely decided: it signifies also that God has appointed a term for all kingdoms, and that a miserable end will come on all th... [ Continue Reading ]
And Darius (o) the Median took the kingdom, [being] about threescore and two years old. (o) Cyrus his son-in-law gave him this title of honour, even though Cyrus in effect had the dominion.... [ Continue Reading ]