Dan 5:1-4 | NASB2020 | 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 .

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

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

‏ Daniel 5:1-4

Belshazzar’s Feast

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 ^{▼▼Or Under the influence of the wine}While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring the gold and silver ^dvessels which his ^{▼▼Or forefather, and so throughout the ch}father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of 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 out of them. 4 They ^fdrank the wine and praised the gods of ^ggold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone.