Daniel 5
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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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.

Belshazzar. Belshazzar is said by Josephus to be the same as Naboadelus, the Nabonadius of Ptolemy, and the Labynetus of Herodotus. He reigned seven years, during which time he was engaged in unsuccessful wars with the Medes and Persians; and at this very time was besieged by Cyrus.

the golden.

Daniel 1:2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part …

2 Kings 24:13 And he carried out there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, …

2 Kings 25:15 And the fire pans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, …

2 Chronicles 36:10,18 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought …

Ezra 1:7-11 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the …

Jeremiah 27:16-22 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus …

Jeremiah 52:19 And the basins, and the fire pans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, …

father. or, grandfather.

Daniel 5:11,13,18 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy …

2 Samuel 9:7 And David said to him, Fear not: for I will surely show you kindness …

2 Kings 8:25-27 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah …

2 Chronicles 11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bore …

2 Chronicles 15:16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed …

Jeremiah 27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, …

taken out. Chal. brought forth. might.

Daniel 5:4,23 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of …

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.

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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
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.
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.

the king's.

Daniel 5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was …

Daniel 2:1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar …

Daniel 3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage …

Job 15:20-27 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of …

Job 20:19-27 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has …

Psalm 73:18-20 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …

Isaiah 21:2-4 A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals …

countenance. Chal. brightness.

Daniel 5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was …

was changed. Chal. changed it. and his thoughts.

Daniel 5:10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came …

Daniel 4:5,19 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts on my bed and …

Daniel 7:28 Till now is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations …

so that.

Psalm 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins …

Isaiah 13:7,8 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt…

Isaiah 21:3,4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold on …

joints. or, girdles.

Isaiah 5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor …

Chal. bindings, or knots. and his knees.

Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

Ezekiel 7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say to you, Why sigh you? that you shall …

Nahum 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees …

Hebrews 12:12 Why lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

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.

aloud. Chal. with might.

Daniel 4:14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his …

to bring.

Daniel 2:2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, …

Daniel 4:6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me…

Genesis 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; …

Isaiah 44:25,26 That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; …

Isaiah 47:13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, …

be clothed.

Daniel 5:16,29 And I have heard of you, that you can make interpretations, and dissolve …

Daniel 2:6 But if you show the dream, and the interpretation thereof, you shall …

Genesis 41:42-44 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's …

Numbers 22:7,17 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the …

Numbers 24:11 Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to …

1 Samuel 17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that is come up? …

scarlet. or, purple.
a chain.

Proverbs 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.

Songs 1:10 Your cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.

Ezekiel 16:11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, …

the third.

Daniel 2:48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, …

Daniel 6:2,3 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the …

Esther 3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha …

Esther 10:2,3 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration …

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.
Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
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:
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;
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.
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?
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.
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:
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.
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.
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
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.
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:

when.

Daniel 4:30-33,37 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …

Exodus 9:17 As yet exalt you yourself against my people, that you will not let them go?

Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing …

Job 15:25-27 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself …

Job 40:11,12 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is …

Proverbs 16:5,18 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though …

Isaiah 14:12-17 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how …

Luke 1:51,52 He has showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in …

Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than …

hardened.

1 Samuel 6:6 Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh …

2 Kings 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like …

2 Chronicles 36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him …

Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any …

in pride. or, to deal proudly. deposed. Chal. made to come down.

Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit …

Jeremiah 13:18 Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for …

Jeremiah 48:18 You daughter that do inhabit Dibon, come down from your glory, and …

Ezekiel 30:6 Thus said the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the …

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.
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
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:

lifted.

Daniel 5:3,4 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple …

2 Kings 14:10 You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory …

Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be on every one that is proud …

Isaiah 33:10 Now will I rise, said the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I …

Isaiah 37:23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you …

Jeremiah 50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the …

Ezekiel 28:2,5,17 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because …

Ezekiel 31:10 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have lifted up yourself …

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the …

1 Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation …

Revelation 13:5,6 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; …

the Lord.

Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, …

Genesis 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, …

Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth has he …

and they.

Daniel 5:2-4 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine…

1 Samuel 5:1-9 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer …

hath praised.

Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer …

which.

Psalm 115:4-8 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands…

Psalm 135:15-17 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands…

Isaiah 37:19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but …

Isaiah 46:6,7 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, …

Habakkuk 2:18,19 What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; …

1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered …

in whose.

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed …

Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Job 34:14,15 If he set his heart on man, if he gather to himself his spirit and his breath…

Psalm 104:29 You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, …

Psalm 146:4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day …

Isaiah 42:5 Thus said God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched …

Acts 17:25,28,29 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, …

and whose.

Job 31:4 Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Psalm 139:3 You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Proverbs 20:24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in …

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…

hast thou.

Romans 1:21-23 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, …

Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

MENE. Had these words been written in the Chaldean character, every one who knew the alphabet of the language could at least have read them: they are pure Chaldee, and literally denote He is numbered, he is numbered; he is weighed; they are divided.

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

Darius. This was Cyaxares, son of Astyage, king of Media, and maternal uncle to Cyrus, who allowed him the title of his conquests, as long as he lived.

Daniel 6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, …

Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of …

being. Chal. he as the son of, etc. about. or, now.

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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