Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
Parallel translations
- WEB Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
- KJV Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
- BSB Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- NKJV Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.
- NLT Many years later King Belshazzar gave a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
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Belshazzar holds a great feast for a thousand of his lords. The scene of reckless revelry opens the night of Babylon's fall.
Overview
Years after Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar rules a Babylon now under threat, yet he feasts in arrogant security. His lavish banquet contrasts sharply with the danger at the city gates. The careless indulgence sets the stage for a sudden judgment that will repeat, far more severely, the lesson Nebuchadnezzar learned about pride before God.
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- Esth 1:3in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.
- Mark 6:21–22Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
- Jer 51:57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
- Jer 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 21:4–5My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
- Isa 22:12In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
- Isa 22:14Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
- Gen 40:20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
- Nah 1:10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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