Daniel 5:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: ”

Daniel 5:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 th...
Daniel 5:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Daniel 5:18 - 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 5:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the MOST HIGH . Same as Hebrew. 'elyon. App-4.
Daniel 5:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 do...
Daniel 5:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: Nebuchadnezzar thy father - Or grandfather, as the margin reads, Daniel 5:2 . See the not...
Daniel 5:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 bir...
Daniel 5:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 5:1-4 ). He is terr...
Daniel 5:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The most high God . — Comp. this and the three following verses with Daniel 4:16-17 ; Daniel 4:22-25 .
Daniel 5:18 - 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 5:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Daniel 5:18 - 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 5:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 occasio...
Daniel 5:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Daniel 5:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 a...
Daniel 5:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, bo...
Daniel 5:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel Brought before Belshazzar. B. C. 538. 10 Now the queen, by reason of the word...
Daniel 5:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“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 lan...
Daniel 5:18 - 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 5:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:1-31 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 nigh...
Daniel 5:18 - 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 5:18 - 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 5:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Interpretation and the Fulfilment
Daniel 5:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 26:13 ; Acts 26:19 ; Acts 7:48 ; Daniel 2:37 ; Daniel 2:38 ; Daniel 3:17 ; Daniel 3:18 ; Daniel 4:17 ; Daniel 4:22 ; Daniel 4:22-25 ; Daniel 4:32 ; Daniel 6:22 ; Deuteronomy 32:8 ;...

Daniel 5:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Daniel 5:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Daniel 5:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Daniel 5:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Daniel 5:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Daniel 5:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Daniel 5:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Daniel 5:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Daniel 5:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Daniel 5:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge