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 right to blaspheme their God. For similar instances of men exceeding the limits of their authority while acting as ministers of God’s chastisement, see Isaiah 10:5; Jeremiah 51:20; Hosea 14:5.
Not glorified — i.e., dishonoured.
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....
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...
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 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:
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...
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....
_and they have brought_, &c. See Daniel 5:2. _which see not, nor hear, nor know_ Cf. Deuteronomy 4:28; Psalms 115:5-6;...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
וְ עַ֣ל מָרֵֽא ־שְׁמַיָּ֣א ׀ הִתְרֹומַ֡מְתָּ וּ...
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...
_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)_...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
Daniel 5:23 lifted H7313 (H8712) against H5922 Lord H4756 heaven H8065 brought H858 (H8684) vessels H3984 house...
“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...
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 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:...
_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...
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 5:23 Belshazzar knew of Nebuchadnezzar’s humbling, yet he LIFTED himself UP... AGAINST THE LORD OF HEAVEN by using the sacred vessels from the Jerusalem temple for an idolatrous...
_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...
1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Samuel 5:1; 1 Timothy 3:6; 2 Kings 14:10; Act