Daniel 5:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The women in those courts had always an apartment by themselves, and this being queen mother, and aged, did not mingle herself with the king's wives and concubines, but withdrew herself from those pleasures in banqueting, yet brake rule in coming in now upon this solemn occasion and fright.

Daniel 5:10

10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: