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Belshazzar’s Feast

King Belshaz′zar[a] made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in front of the thousand.

Belshaz′zar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver which Nebuchadnez′zar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

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Footnotes

  1. 5.1 Belshazzar: He was the son of Nabonidus and was never in fact king.

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