Dan 5:1-4 | NASB1995 | STEP | Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles , and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand .

c 2 Kin 24:13; 25:15; Ezra 1:7-11; Dan 1:2

f Ps 115:4; 135:15; Is 40:19, 20; Dan 3:1; Hab 2:19

Daniel 5:1-4

1 Belshazzar the king ^{▼▼ Lit made}held a great ^bfeast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. 2 When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he gave orders to bring the gold and silver ^cvessels which Nebuchadnezzar his ^{▼▼ Or forefather, and so throughout the ch}father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. 4 They ^edrank the wine and praised the gods of ^fgold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.