Daniel 5:10

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 Daniel 5:11 of what had happened in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, the queen-mother, i.e. (in the view of the writer) Nebuchadnezzar's widow [257]. In both Israel and Judah the mother of the reigning king is mentioned as an influential person, 1Ki 15:13; 2 Kings 10:13; 2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 24:15; Jeremiah 13:18; Jeremiah 29:2.

[257] Nabu-na'id's actual mother died eight years previously, in his ninth year, as is expressly stated in the -Annalistic Tablet," ii. 13 (KB.iii. 2, p. 131; RP.2 v. 160).

O king, live for ever Cf. on Daniel 2:4.

trouble alarm, as Daniel 5:6.