Daniel 5:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 1:3
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
Mark 6:21-22
And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; …
Isaiah 21:4-5
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. …
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Topics

Babylon Belshazzar Eating Extravagance Gluttony Self-Indulgence Sensuality Surfeiting

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

We have here Belshazzar the king very gay, but all of a sudden very gloomy, and in straits in the fulness of his sufficiency. See how he affronts God, and God affrights him; and wait what will be the issue of this contest; and whether he that hardened his heart against God prospered. I. See how the king affronted God, and put contempt upon him. He made a great feast, or banquet of wine; probably i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Da 5:1-31. Belshazzar’s Impious Feast; the Handwriting on the Wall Interpreted by Daniel of the Doom of Babylon and Its King. 1. Belshazzar--Rawlinson, from the Assyrian inscriptions, has explained the seeming discrepancy between Daniel and the heathen historians of Babylon, Berosus and Abydenus, who say the last king (Nabonidus) surrendered in Borsippa, after Babylon was taken, and had an honorab…