Daniel 5:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ Bĕlshatstsar the sovereign made a great feast for a thousand of his great men, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BELSHAZZAR THE king [descendant of Nebuchadnezzar] made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and he drank his wine in the presence of the thousand.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Common English Bible

¹ King Belshazzar threw a huge party for a thousand of his princes, and he drank a lot of wine in front of them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and each one of them drank according to his age.

Daniel 5:1 Cross References

Esther 1:3

that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and servants. The power of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of the provinces were before him,

Isaiah 22:14

And it was revealed in my hearing by יהוה of hosts, “For this crookedness shall certainly not be pardoned until you die,” said the Master יהוה of hosts.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Master יהוה of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Nahum 1:10

Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried.

Jeremiah 51:57

“And I shall make her rulers drunk, and her wise men, her governors, and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a lasting sleep, and not awake,” declares the Sovereign, whose Name is יהוה of hosts.

Jeremiah 51:39

“In their heat I prepare their feasts. And I shall make them drunk, so that they rejoice, and sleep a neverending sleep and not awake,” declares יהוה.

Genesis 40:20

And on the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, it came to be that he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and of the chief baker among his servants,

Jeremiah 50:35

“A sword is upon the Kasdim,” declares יהוה, “and it is upon the inhabitants of Baḇel, and upon her heads and upon her wise men.

Daniel 5:30

In that night Bĕlshatstsar, sovereign of the Kasdim, was killed.