Verse Daniel 5:30. In that night was Belshazzar - slain.] Xenophon says, he was despatched by two lords, Gadatas and Gobrias, who went over to Cyrus, to avenge themselves of certain wrongs which Belshazzar had done them. We have already seen that Cyrus entered the city by the bed of the Euphrates, which he had emptied, by cutting a channel for the waters, and directing them into the marshy country.
IN THAT NIGHT WAS BELSHAZZAR THE KING OF THE CHALDEANS SLAIN - On the taking of Babylon, and the consequences, see the notes at Isaiah 13:17; Isaiah 45:1. The account which Xenophon (“Cyrop.” vii. s.)...
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...
THAT NIGHT. Compare Daniel 5:1. BELSHAZZAR. See note on Daniel 5:2. THE CHALDEANS. Here spoken of in the national sense, not of. special class. See note on Daniel 1:4. SLAIN. Either by the Persians,...
DISCOURSE: 1130 BELSHAZZAR’S DEATH Daniel 5:30. _In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain_. “KNOWN unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” We speak of things...
IN THAT NIGHT WAS BELSHAZZAR—SLAIN— He and all his nobles were slain together, in the midst of their feasting and revels. Xenophon relates the history thus: Two deserters, _Gadatas_ and _Gobrias,_ hav...
d. TRAGEDY TEXT: Daniel 5:24-31 24 then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed, 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN....
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. IN THAT NIGHT WAS BELSHAZZAR ... SLAIN. Herodotus and Xenophon confirm Daniel as to the suddenness of the event. Cyrus diverted the Eup...
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...
CHALDEANS] here used in the national sense, as equivalent to 'Babylonians.' WAS BELSHAZZAR.. SLAIN] The traditions about the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, which classical historians have preserved, are...
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,...
בֵּ֚הּ בְּ לֵ֣ילְיָ֔א קְטִ֕יל בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֥א _כַשְׂדָּאָֽה_
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...
Short, but awful, the account of the king's death! In that night. A night indeed of terrors. Certainly it was a night of the most daring impiety. Probably also, a night of drunkenness. So died this wr...
_THE JUDGE AT THE DOOR_ ‘In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.’ Daniel 5:30 Secular historians tell us of the wickedness of this king. Cowardice, too, was one of his faults,...
Here Daniel shortly relates how his prophecy was fulfilled that very night. As we have before explained it, a customary feast-day had occurred which the Babylonians celebrated annually, and on this oc...
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...
IN THAT NIGHT WAS BELSHAZZAR, THE KING OF THE CHALDEANS, SLAIN. Not by a servant of his own, as Jacchiades; or by an eunuch, one of his guards, as Saadiah and Joseph ben Gorion b; but by Gadales and G...
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. Ver. 30. In that night was Belshazzar … slain.] By Gaddatha and Gobrya, two of Cyrus's commanders, who had been wronged by Belshazzar (as...
_In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain_ He and all his nobles were slain together, in the midst of their feasting and revelling, as Herodotus, lib. 1., and Xenophon, inform us....
In that night was Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, slain, namely, when his city was taken by the victorious armies of the enemy, who took the city as the result of a ruse....
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...
Which the heathen histories do also confirm. This shows the severity of God's judgment against the highest offenders, PSA 2$ PSA 90$ PSA 149$ HOSEA 10:7. It also confirms the truth of God's threatenin...
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‘In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain, and Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty two years old.' The king was probably slain in what fighting there was, along...
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...
_In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain._ THE LAST NIGHT OF BABYLON I. THE JUDGMENT OF THIS NIGHT HAD BEEN LONG THREATENED. Upwards of one hundred and sixty years before this, 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 5:13 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 5:30 BELSHAZZAR gave Daniel the promised reward, but it was an empty gift. THAT VERY NIGHT Belshazzar’s rule ended, when the Medes and the Persians entered Babylon. Belshazzar...
_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 5:1; Daniel 5:2; Isaiah 21:4; Isaiah 47:9; Jeremiah 51:11;...