Daniel 5:1

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

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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...
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 Ki...
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 th...
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 vers...
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 consideratio...
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...
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...
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 Assyri...
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 (Nab...
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 th...
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 ev...
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 aggra...
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 inferre...
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 g...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet simply gives the relation of the history, but doth not enlarge upon it. Indeed it needs no comment. Drunkenness leads to impiety and prop...
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...
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, a...
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 Evi...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. B. C. 538....
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,...
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 t...
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...
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 convicti...
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 on...
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 fa...
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 D...
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 t...
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 grea...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Feast and the Handwriting.
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...

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Related Commentaries of Daniel 5:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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