Daniel 5:2King James Version - American EditionBelshaz´zar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnez´zar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein. See the chapter |
And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnez´zar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbaz´zar, whom he had made governor;
there is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnez´zar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chalde´ans, and soothsayers;
but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.