Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 5:6
His knees smote — So soon can the terrors of God make the loftiest cedars, the tyrants of the earth.
His knees smote — So soon can the terrors of God make the loftiest cedars, the tyrants of the earth.
Verse Daniel 5:6. _THE KING'S COUNTENANCE WAS CHANGED_] Here is a very natural description of fear and terror. 1. The face grows pale; 2. The mind becomes greatly agitated; 3. Pains seize on the lo...
THEN THE KING’S COUNTENANCE WAS CHANGED - The word rendered “countenance” is, in the margin, as in Daniel 5:9, “brightnesses.” The Chaldee word means “brightness, splendor” (זיו _zı̂yv_), and the mean...
CHAPTER 5 BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST _ 1. Belshazzar's licentious feast (Daniel 5:1)_ 2. The writing on the wall (Daniel 5:5) 3. Forgotten Daniel (Daniel 5:10) 4. The message of Daniel ...
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...
THEN THE KING'S COUNTENANCE WAS CHANGED. All were sobered in an instant. The king, so bold. moment before, is pale and trembling. His knees smite together and his whole form shakes with terror. It is...
COUNTENANCE. bright looks....
_countenance_ lit. BRIGHTNESS (i.e. healthy freshness and colour): cf. Daniel 4:36. So Daniel 5:9-10; Daniel 7:28. Cf. the Targum (Onk.) of De
DISCOURSE: 1126 BELSHAZZAR WARNED OF HIS IMPENDING RUIN Daniel 5:5. 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 kin...
THEN THE KING'S COUNTENANCE, &C.— The expressions in this verse, in a collected view, contain such a description of terror as is rarely to be met with, the dead change of the countenance, the perturba...
CHAPTER FIVE I. DEGENERATE DESPOT'S DEMISEDaniel 5:1-31 a. TERROR TEXT: Daniel 5:1-7 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Be...
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. THEN THE KING'S COUNTENANCE WAS CHANGE...
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...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 5 V1 King Belshazzar had a big party. He invited a thousand important people and he drank wine with them. V2 As Belshazzar drank wine,...
THE KING’S COUNTENANCE WAS CHANGED. — The effect of the vision on the king changes his whole expression to that of alarm instead of drunken mirth....
אֱדַ֤יִן מַלְכָּא֙ זִיוֹ֣הִי שְׁנֹ֔והִי וְ רַעיֹנֹ֖הִי...
THE FIERY INSCRIPTION IN this chapter again we have another magnificent fresco-picture, intended, as was the last-but under circumstances of aggravated guilt and more terrible menace-to teach the les...
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL Daniel 5:1-16 The name of Belshazzar has been deciphered in inscriptions found at Babylon, from which it is inferred that he was associated with his father in the kingdom,...
The next scene is cast in the reign of Belshazzar. He had succeeded to the throne of his father, and was a man of profligate habits. No details are given of his reign, but a graphic picture is set bef...
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,...
_Loosed, so that he quaked for fear. (Ezechiel xxix. 7.) (Calmet) --- He was not so drunk as to be deprived of sense. (Haydock) --- This happened in the 17th and last year of his reign, when Daniel wa...
Behold, Reader! on what a slender thread the happiness of man hangs, when in a moment the appearance on a wall can snap it asunder! What was it so alarmed the reveling prince, and his drunken lords? S...
Here Daniel shews how the king’s mind was struck with fear, lest any one should think his fright without foundation. But he expresses, by many _circumstances, _how disturbed the king was, and thus the...
In chapter 5 the iniquity of the head of the Gentiles with respect to the God of Israel reaches the highest point, and assumes that character of insolence and contempt which is but the effort of weakn...
THEN THE KINGS COUNTENANCE CHANGED,.... Or, "his brightness" l; his ruddy countenance, his florid looks, his gay airs; all his jollity and mirth, that appeared in his face, were changed into paleness,...
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. Ver. 6. Then the king's countenance was c...
_In the same hour_ At the very time; _came forth fingers of a man's hand_ The likeness of a man's hand; _and wrote over against the candlestick_ The angel Gabriel, say the rabbins, directing this hand...
Then the king's countenance was changed, literally, "Then the king, his color was changed unto him," AND HIS THOUGHTS TROUBLED HIM, as his guilty conscience filled him with terror, SO THAT THE JOINTS...
THE FEAST AND THE HANDWRITING....
COUNTENANCE: Cald. brightnesses WAS CHANGED: Cald. changed it JOINTS: Or, girdles. Cald. bindings or knots...
1-9 Belshazzar bade defiance to the judgments of God. Most historians consider that Cyrus then besieged Babylon. Security and sensuality are sad proofs of approaching ruin. That mirth is sinful indee...
His cheerful countenance was turned to paleness, fear and horror had quite blasted the majesty of his face, like an eclipse of the sun. So soon can the terrors of God shake the loftiest cedars; it is...
Daniel 5:6 Then H116 kings H4430 countenance H2122 changed H8133 (H8754) thoughts H7476 troubled H927 (H8792) joints...
‘Then the king's face was changed on him, and his thoughts upset him greatly, and the joints of his limbs went slack and his knees smote one against another.' The effect on the king was dramatic. He...
Daniel 5:1 , DANIEL 5:6; DANIEL 5:25; DANIEL 5:28 The case of Belshazzar may be fairly assumed as a case of clear and powerful conviction of sin which did not
Daniel 5:1 I. Belshazzar's feast was characterised by great intemperance. II. It was characterised by great profanity. III. This night was one of supernatural visitation. IV. This was a night of t...
CONTENTS: Daniel's personal history under Belshazzar and Darius. The pride of Belshazzar and his downfall. The writing on the wall. Its interpretation and fulfillment. CHARACTERS: God, Belshazzar, Qu...
Daniel 5:2. _Belshazzar his father Nebuchadnezzar._ Belshazzar was the son of Evilmerodach, and grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. The empire therefore falling at this time, fulfilled the prophecy, that all...
_And his thoughts troubled him._ THE PROBLEM OF LIFE AND ITS SOLUTION Poor king! He was not the first, nor is he the last man whose “thoughts” have troubled him. We only want to know that a man can t...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 5:1 Daniel explains to Belshazzar, the last king of Babylon, that the writing on the wall is a message that the true God rules over all. In his own time, this true God will vindi...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 5:5 The FINGERS of a mysterious HAND wrote ON THE PLASTER of the PALACE wall...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XVII.—BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST (Chap. 5.) This chapter deservedly a favourite with general readers [126]. The magnificence, excitement, and revelry of the royal feast; the profligate kin...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 5:1 BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST. In regard to this chapter the peculiar state of the Septuagint text has to be noted. At the beginning of the chapter there are three verses which seem to be...
Shall we turn now in our Bible to Daniel, chapter 5. Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousands (Daniel 5:1). There are men who call themse...
Daniel 4:19; Daniel 4:5; Daniel 7:28; Daniel 2:1; Daniel 3:19;...