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Verse 23. _BUT HAST LIFTED UP THYSELF AGAINST THE LORD_] And the
highest evidence of this rebellion was, the profaning the sacred
vessels of the Lord's house....
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BUT HAST LIFTED UP THYSELF AGAINST THE LORD OF HEAVEN - The God who
had so signally rebuked and humbled Nebuchadnezzar. The monarch had
done this, it would seem, during the whole of his reign, and now...
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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 ...
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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...
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THE LORD. Chaldee. _mare._ The equivalent for the Hebrew Adonai.
App-4. Compare _Maran_ in " _Maranatha_ " (1 Corinthians 16:22).
WHICH SEE NOT, &C. Compare Psalms 115:4; Psalms 135:
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_and they have brought_, &c. See Daniel 5:2.
_which see not, nor hear, nor know_ Cf. Deuteronomy 4:28; Psalms
115:5-6;...
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But Belshazzar, in spite of the warning afforded by Nebuchadnezzar's
fate, has sinned still more deeply, and by wanton sacrilege has
deliberately defied the God of heaven....
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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
humiliatio...
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DISCOURSE: 1128
BELSHAZZAR’S IMPIETY AND OURS COMPARED
Daniel 5:23. _The God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all
thy ways, hast thou not glorified_.
WHEN we look around us, and see what in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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GODS OF SILVER... — Comp. Deuteronomy 4:28. Belshazzar had exceeded
those limits of authority over Israel which he had by right of
conquest. The Israelites were, indeed, his subjects, but he had no
ri...
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וְ עַ֣ל מָרֵֽא ־שְׁמַיָּ֣א ׀
הִתְרֹומַ֡מְתָּ וּ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Vessels. Only part had been returned to Sedecias: (Chap. i. 2.) but
they were taken again, and kept in the palace, or in the temple of
Bel. (Haydock) --- Breath, or soul. (Genesis ii. 7.) (Calmet)_...
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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...
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_FAILURE TO GLORIFY GOD_
‘The God in Whose hand thy breath is, and Whose are all thy ways,
hast thou not glorified.’
Daniel 5:23
Such, in one single sentence, brief, pregnant, inexorable, is the
su...
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The Prophet continues his own sentence, and confirms what I have said,
namely, King Belshazzar was intractable and willfully blind to God’s
judgment. _For thou hast raised thyself, _says he, _against...
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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...
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BUT HAST LIFTED UP THYSELF AGAINST THE LORD OF HEAVEN,.... Who made
it, and dwells in it; from whence he beholds all the actions of the
children of men, and will bring them to an account for them; and...
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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...
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_But when his heart was lifted up_ The expressions here have a
peculiar force, in marking the haughty insolence of King
Nebuchadnezzar. His authority, as mentioned in the last verse, had
been raised t...
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but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven, in blasphemous
pride; AND THEY HAVE BROUGHT THE VESSELS OF HIS HOUSE, of the Temple
of Jehovah, the one true God, BEFORE THEE, AND THOU AND THY L...
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THE INTERPRETATION AND THE FULFILMENT...
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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...
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He instanceth in three or four things.
1. They have brought the vessels of his house before thee to drink
wine in them, to profane them in your idolatrous feast, and ye have
all polluted them with yo...
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Daniel 5:23 lifted H7313 (H8712) against H5922 Lord H4756 heaven H8065
brought H858 (H8684) vessels H3984 house...
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“And you his descendant, O Belshazzar, you have not humbled your
heart; though you knew all this. But you have lifted up yourself
against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his
h...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_And the God in whose hand thy breath is._
Providence, when it pleases, can soon humble the haughtiest, and alarm
the boldest sinner.
I. Let us CONSIDER THE ACCOUNT GIVEN OF OUR DEPENDENCE UPON GOD:...
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_Hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this._
THE PROPHET’S INDICTMENT
It included three counts.
1. The teaching of God had been disregarded. The sovereignty of
Nebuchadnezzar had b...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Timothy 3:6; 2 Kings 14:10; Act