Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Est 1:3Gen 40:20Mrk 6:21-22Isa 21:4-5Isa 22:12Isa 22:14Jer 51:39Jer 51:57 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. 1 2 Dan 1:22Ki 24:132Ki 25:15Dan 5:23Ezr 1:7-11Jer 27:16-222Ch 11:202Ch 15:16 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. Dan 5:23Hab 2:19Psa 135:15-18Rev 9:20-21Act 17:29Isa 40:19-20Isa 42:8Isa 46:6-7
¶ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over 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. Dan 4:31Dan 5:24-281Th 5:2-3Col 2:14Job 20:5Dan 4:33Dan 5:15Dan 5:8 Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. 3 5 4 Dan 7:28Ezk 7:17Nam 2:10Dan 4:5Ezk 21:7Psa 69:23Dan 4:19Dan 5:9-10 The king cried aloud to bring in 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, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. 6 7 Dan 5:16Dan 5:29Dan 2:48Gen 41:42-44Dan 2:6Dan 6:2-3Dan 2:2Est 10:2-3 Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. Dan 2:27Dan 4:7Gen 41:8Dan 5:15Isa 47:12-15Isa 47:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. 8 Dan 5:6Dan 2:1Isa 13:6-8Isa 21:2-4Jer 6:24Dan 10:8Jer 30:6Job 18:11-14
¶ 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 countenance be changed: Dan 3:9Dan 2:4Dan 6:61Ki 1:311Sa 4:20-22Dan 6:21Gen 35:17-18Job 13:4 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 magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; 9 Dan 4:8-9Dan 2:47-48Dan 4:18Dan 5:142Sa 14:17Act 12:22Dan 2:11Gen 41:11-15 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation. 10 12 11 Dan 5:14Dan 6:3Dan 1:7Dan 5:16Pro 12:26Dan 4:8Psa 16:32Ch 9:1-2 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? 13 Dan 6:13Dan 5:11Dan 2:25Ezr 10:16Ezr 4:1Ezr 6:16Ezr 6:19-20Jhn 7:3 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. Dan 5:11-12 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing: Dan 5:7-8Isa 47:12Dan 2:3-11Isa 29:10-12 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. 14 Dan 5:7Dan 5:29Gen 40:8Act 8:18
¶ Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. 15 2Ki 5:16Gen 14:232Ki 3:132Ki 5:26Act 8:20Dan 2:6Dan 5:29Psa 119:46 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: Dan 2:37-38Dan 4:17Dan 4:22-25Act 26:13Act 26:19Act 7:48Dan 3:17-18Dan 4:2 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. Dan 2:12-13Dan 3:6Dan 3:4Dan 3:20-21Dan 3:29Dan 4:22Hab 2:5Jer 25:9-14 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 16 17 2Ki 17:142Ch 36:13Exo 9:17Heb 3:13Jer 13:18Pro 16:18Isa 14:12-17Jer 19:15 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. 18 Dan 4:25Ezk 17:24Dan 4:17Dan 4:35Dan 4:32-33Exo 9:14-16Job 30:3-7Psa 83:17-18 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 2Ch 33:23Exo 10:32Ch 36:12Jas 4:171Pe 5:5-6Jas 4:6Act 4:8-13Act 5:29-33 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: Job 12:10Dan 4:37Isa 2:12Isa 37:23Jer 10:23Jer 50:29Job 31:4Pro 20:24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. Dan 5:5
¶ And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Isa 47:1-15Jer 25:11-12Jer 27:7Act 15:18Dan 9:2Isa 13:1-14Isa 21:1-10Jer 50:1-46 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Job 31:61Co 3:13Psa 62:9Ezk 22:18-20Jer 6:30Mat 22:11-12 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. Dan 6:28Isa 13:17Dan 5:31Isa 21:2Isa 45:1-2Dan 8:20Dan 9:1Dan 8:3-4 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. Dan 5:16Dan 5:7
¶ In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. Jer 51:31Jer 51:39Jer 51:57Dan 5:1-2Isa 21:4-9Isa 47:9Jer 51:11 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. 19 20 Dan 9:1Dan 6:1