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, or it may have been by assassination by one of his own followers, or accidentally in the tumult. Chaldee. k etal, used of. violent death. Compare Daniel 5:19. This was on the third of the month Marchesvan. On the eleventh, Belshazzar's wife died, perhaps from grief. See Encycl. Brit, vol. iii, p. 711, 712, 11th (Cambridge) edition. See App-57.