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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:10

[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 age was not at the feast before, but came there when she heard of this strange news.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Daniel 5:10. _THE QUEEN - CAME_] This is generally allowed to have been the _widow_ of Nebuchadnezzar; if so, she was the queen _Amiyt_, daughter of _Astyages_, sister of _Darius_ the Mede, and...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOW THE QUEEN - “Probably the queen-mother, the Nitocris of Herodotus, as the king’s wives were at the entertainment.” - Wintle. Compare Daniel 5:2. So Prof. Stuart. The editor of the “Pictorial Bible...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DANIEL 5. Belshazzar, who is represented as king of Babylon, makes a great feast, using the vessels which his father had brought to Babylon from the Temple at Jerusalem. During the feast the fingers o...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    NOW THE QUEEN... CAME INTO THE BANQUET HOUSE. The wives and concubines were already there, but the queen only came on account of hearing of the awful portent. This convinces us that the queen was not...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the queen_ probably, as most commentators assume, partly because she is distinguished from the -wives" or -consorts" mentioned in Daniel 5:2, partly on account of the manner in which she speaks in Da...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOW THE QUEEN, &C.— _Now the queen, on account of the affair which had happened to the king and his lords, came,_ &c. The word for _countenance_ at the end of the verse signifies _splendour,_ or the s...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Now the 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 count...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:10 queen, (e-3) See 1 Kings 15:13 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST Belshazzar, king of Babylon, holds a great feast, at which he profanely uses the sacred vessels taken by Nebuchadnezzar from the Temple at Jerusalem (Daniel 5:1). He is terrified at...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַלְכְּתָ֕א לָ קֳבֵ֨ל מִלֵּ֤י מַלְכָּא֙ וְ רַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here Daniel relates the occasion of his being brought before the king, as the reader and interpreter of the writing. The queen, he says, did this. It is doubtful whether it was the wife of King Belsha...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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