In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Parallel translations
- WEB In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
- BSB That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
- NKJV That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
- NASB That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.
- NLT That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
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Quick answer
That very night Belshazzar is killed, fulfilling God's word without delay. The judgment announced is swiftly carried out.
Overview
The prophecy is realized the same night it is given, as Babylon falls to the Medo-Persian forces. God's word does not return void, and what He declares comes to pass exactly. The sudden end of the proud king stands as a solemn testimony that the Lord judges in His appointed hour.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Jer 51:31One 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,
- Jer 51:39In 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.
- Jer 51:57And 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.
- Jer 51:11Make 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.
- Isa 21:4–9My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
- Isa 47:9But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
- Dan 5:1–2Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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