Skip to content

Belshazzar

8 verses · 1 family member

Verses Mentioning Belshazzar

  1. Belshatzar the king gave a great banquet for a thousand of his lords, and in the presence of the thousand he was drinking wine.

  2. While tasting the wine, Belshatzar ordered that the gold and silver vessels which his father N'vukhadnetzar had removed from the temple in Yerushalayim be brought; so that the king, his lords, his wives and his concubines could drink from them.

  3. Then King Belshatzar became terrified; his face turned pale, and his lords were thrown into confusion.

  4. But, Belshatzar, you, his son, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

  5. Then Belshatzar gave the order; and they clothed Dani'el in royal purple, put a gold chain around his neck and proclaimed of him that he was to be one of the three men ruling the kingdom.

  6. That very night Belshatzar, the king of the Kasdim, was killed.

  7. In the first year of Belshatzar king of Bavel, Dani'el had a dream and visions in his head, as he was lying on his bed. He wrote the dream down, and this is his account:

  8. After that first vision, it was in the third year of the reign of King Belshatzar that another vision appeared to me, Dani'el.