Daniel 5:1
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The Writing on the Wall
5 King Belshazzar(A) gave a great banquet(B) for a thousand of his nobles(C) and drank wine with them.
Daniel 5:2
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2 While Belshazzar was drinking(A) his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets(B) that Nebuchadnezzar his father[a] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines(C) might drink from them.(D)
Footnotes
- Daniel 5:2 Or ancestor; or predecessor; also in verses 11, 13 and 18
Daniel 5:7
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7 The king summoned the enchanters,(A) astrologers[a](B) and diviners.(C) Then he said to these wise(D) men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck,(E) and he will be made the third(F) highest ruler in the kingdom.”(G)
Footnotes
- Daniel 5:7 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 11
Daniel 5:8
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8 Then all the king’s wise men(A) came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant.(B)
Daniel 5:30
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Footnotes
- Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans
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