30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
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.
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. …
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-31)Here is, 1. The death of the king. Reason enough he had to tremble, for he was just falling into the hands of the king of terrors , Dan. 5:30. In that night , when his heart was merry with wine, the besiegers broke into the city, aimed at the palace; there they found the king, and gave him his death’s wound. He could not find any place so secret as to conceal him, or so strong as to protect him. H…
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