Daniel 5:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. ”

Daniel 5:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Belshazzar the king - See Introduction to the chapter, Section II. In the Introduction to the chapter here referred to, I have stated what seemed to be necessary in order to illustrate the histor...
Daniel 5:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(a) Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine (b) before the thousand. (a) Daniel recites this history of King Belshazzar, Evilmerodach's son, to show God's j...
Daniel 5:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 finger...
Daniel 5:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Belshazzar . He was the son of Nabonidus. The inscriptions show that he was made co-regent while he (Nabonidus) went to meet Cyrus. See note on verses: Daniel 5:2 ; Daniel 5:7 ; Daniel 5:1 . a...
Daniel 5:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel here refers to the history of what happened at the taking of Babylon; but meanwhile he leaves those judgments of God to the consideration of his readers, which the Prophets had predicted...
Daniel 5:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar the king made a great feast - This chapter is out of its place, and should come in af...
Daniel 5:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Belshazzar the king— The grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, the Labynetus of Herodotus, and the last monarch of the Babylonian kingdom. This last king is said by Ptolemy to have reigned 17 years, and we r...
Daniel 5:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar. Rawlinson, from the Assyrian inscriptions, has explained the seeming discrep...
Daniel 5:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Belshazzar the king ] These words raise another historical difficulty, We learn from the inscriptions that Belshazzar was the son of Nabuna' id (Nabonidus), the last king of Babylon, and never occup...
Daniel 5:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

V. (1) Belshazzar. — On this king see Excursus C. As he was the son of Nabonidus, a space of about thirty years must have elapsed since the event recorded in the last chapter. The Babylonian e...
Daniel 5:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Daniel 5:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Handwriting on the Wall Daniel 5:1-16 The name of Belshazzar has been deciphered in inscriptions found at Babylon, from which it is inferred that he was associated with his father in the ki...
Daniel 5:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 be...
Daniel 5:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS Having done with Nebuchadnezzar, we here enter upon the history of his descendant Belshazzar; and a short history it is. We have here, his impious feast; his prophanation of the vessels of...
Daniel 5:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST ‘A great feast.’ Daniel 5:1 I. The seat of the scorner. —We see in this narrative that Belshazzar had, in the pursuit of a sinful course, reached this seat. He was a man...
Daniel 5:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Belshazzar the king made a great feast ,.... This king was not the immediate successor of Nebuchadnezzar, but Evilmerodach, Jeremiah 52:31 , who, according to Ptolemy's canon, reigned two years; th...
Daniel 5:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Ver. 1. Belshazzar the king. ] Son to Evilmerodach, grandson to Nebuchadnezzar, whose line...
Daniel 5:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Belshazzar The son of Evil-merodach, and grandson of Nebuchadnezzar; made a great feast to a thousand of his lords To the principal officers and great men of his court, and was himself present at...
Daniel 5:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. B. C. 538. 1 Belshazzar the king made...
Daniel 5:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

DANIEL CHAPTER 5 Belshazzar's impious feast, Daniel 5:1-4 . The hand-writing on the wall, which the magicians could not explain, troubleth him, Daniel 5:5-9 . At the recommendation of the que...
Daniel 5:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.' The abrupt introduction of the subject is typical of the author (compare Daniel 3:1 ; Danie...
Daniel 5:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 k...
Daniel 5:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:1 , Daniel 5:6 ; Daniel 5:25 ; Daniel 5:28-30 The case of Belshazzar may be fairly assumed as a case of clear and powerful conviction of sin which did not result in the soul's salva...
Daniel 5:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 a...
Daniel 5:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Belshazzar the king made a great feast. Belshazzar This feast is, like how many other events, rescued from oblivion by the interposition of a Divine hand. The presence of God in history is its...
Daniel 5:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Daniel 5:1-27 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...
Daniel 5:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Belshazzar, the king, the son of Nabonidus, either natural or adopted, and coregent with him, apparently the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, made a great feast to a thousand of his lords and drank wine...
Daniel 5:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 1:3 ; Genesis 40:20 ; Isaiah 21:4 ; Isaiah 21:5 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Isaiah 22:14 ; Jeremiah 51:39 ; Jeremiah 51:57 ; Mark 6:21 ; Mark 6:22 ; Nahum 1:10
Daniel 5:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Belshazzar — The grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. Made a great feast — After the manner of the eastern kings who shewed their magnificence this way. But this is prodigious that he should carouse when th...

Daniel 5:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Daniel 5:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Daniel 5:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Daniel 5:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Daniel 5:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Daniel 5:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Daniel 5:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Daniel 5:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Daniel 5:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Daniel 5:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Daniel 5:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Daniel 5:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 5:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes