Before interpreting the writing Daniel reads the king a lesson. Nebuchadnezzar's pride, combined with his refusal to recognize the sovereignty of the true God, had brought upon him a bitter humiliation: Belshazzar has exhibited the same faults yet more conspicuously: and the present sign has been sent in order to warn him of the impending punishment.
18 the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty] Cf. Daniel 4:22; Daniel 4:36.
Verse 18. _NEBUCHADNEZZAR THY FATHER_] Or _grandfather_, as the _margin_ reads, Daniel 5:2. Daniel 5:1....
O THOU KING, THE MOST HIGH GOD GAVE NEBUCHADNEZZAR THY FATHER A KINGDOM ... - This reference to Nebuchadnezzar is evidently designed to show to Belshazzar the wickedness of his own course, and the rea...
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...
THE MOST HIGH. Same as Hebrew. _'elyon._ App-4....
c. TRANSGRESSION TEXT: Daniel 5:17-23 17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the k...
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: THE MOST HIGH GOD GAVE NEBUCHADNEZZAR THY FATHER A KINGDOM. It was not his own birth or...
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 MOST HIGH GOD. — Comp. this and the three following verses with Daniel 4:16; Daniel 4:22....
_אַ֖נְתְּ_† מַלְכָּ֑א אֱלָהָא֙ _עִלָּאָ֔ה_† מַלְכוּתָ֤א וּ רְבוּתָא֙...
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...
WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING Daniel 5:17-31 Daniel was unperturbed and undismayed. Calm and collected, he recognized his Father's handwriting, and read it, as the instructed may decipher a scroll which...
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...
O thou king, the most high God gave (l) Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: (l) Before he read the writing, he declares to the king his great ingratitude toward G...
Who but must admire the faithfulness and honesty of Daniel. And who but must bless the Lord for making him so! It was now many a year since Daniel was first brought before the king on such an occasion...
Before Daniel recites the writing, and adds its interpretation, he explains to King Belshazzar the origin of this prodigy. He did not begin the reading at once, as he might conveniently have done, say...
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...
O THOU KING,.... "Hear" t, O king; so Aben Ezra supplies it; what he was about to say first, in order to prepare him for the meaning of the handwriting, and the cause of it; or, "thou knowest", as Saa...
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: Ver. 18. _O thou king, the most high God gave Nebachadnezzar._] See here the necessary and...
_O thou king_ Before Daniel reads the writing, he judges it proper to remind the king of God's dealings with Nebuchadnezzar, his progenitor, and of those remarkable instances of divine providence, bot...
O thou king, the formal and solemn address bringing out the importance of the message from the outset and placing its entire import into direct relation to the king, THE MOST HIGH GOD GAVE NEBUCHADNEZ...
THE INTERPRETATION AND THE FULFILMENT...
18-31 Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but t...
This the prophet repeats, to put Belshazzar in mind how God dealt with his father; for it is good for kings to read over the story of their ancestors, and take warning, and take example. In the first...
Daniel 5:18 O H607 king H4430 High H5943 God H426 gave H3052 (H8754) Nebuchadnezzar H5020 father H2 kingdom...
“O you who are king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom and greatness and glory and majesty. And because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations and lang...
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...
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 5:13 Daniel alone is able to decipher the writing on the wall. It is a message from the true God, telling of the end of the Babylonian Empire. ⇐...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 5:18 Daniel contrasted Belshazzar with Nebuchadnezzar, to whom THE MOST HIGH GOD GAVE... KINGSHIP AND GREATNESS AND GLORY AND MAJESTY. Nebuchadnezzar was given godlike powers to...
_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...
Acts 26:13; Acts 26:19; Acts 7:48; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38;...