“ In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. ”
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain - On the taking of Babylon, and the consequences, see the notes at Isaiah 13:17-22 ; Isaiah 45:1-2 . The account which Xenophon (“Cy...
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...
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...
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...
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 t...
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. In that night was Belshazzar - slain - Xenophon says, he was dispatched by two lords, Gadatas and Gobrias, who went over to Cyrus, to ave...
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,...
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 t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 w...
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 fa...
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 an...
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 (...
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....
Daniel Deals Plainly with Belshazzar; Interpreting of the Writing on the Wall. B. C. 538. ...
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 threa...
‘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, alo...
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 5:1-31 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 5:2 . 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...
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. The Last Night of Babylon I. T HE JUDGMENT OF THIS NIGHT HAD BEEN LONG THREATENED . Upwards of one hundred and sixty years before t...
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...
The Interpretation and the Fulfilment
Daniel 5:1 ; Daniel 5:2 ; Isaiah 21:4-9 ; Isaiah 47:9 ; Jeremiah 51:11 ; Jeremiah 51:31 ; Jeremiah 51:39 ; Jeremiah 51:57