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Belshazzar played a pivotal role in the coup d'état that overthrew the king Labashi-Marduk (r. 556 BC) and brought Nabonidus to power in 556 BC. Since Belshazzar was the main beneficiary of the coup, through confiscating and inheriting Labashi-Marduk's estates and wealth, it is likely that he was the chief orchestrator.
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BELSHAZZAR. bel-shaz'-ar (belsha'tstsar; Baltasar, Babylonian Bel-shar-usur): According to Daniel 5:30, he was the Chaldean king under whom Babylon was taken by Darius the Mede. The Babylonian monuments speak a number of times of a Bel-shar-usur who was the "firstborn son, the offspring of the heart of" Nabunaid, the last king of the Babylonian ...
Belshazzar (died c. 539 bc) was a coregent of Babylon who was killed at the capture of the city by the Persians. Belshazzar had been known only from the biblical Book of Daniel (chapters 5, 7–8) and from Xenophon’s Cyropaedia until 1854, when references to him were found in Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions. Though he is referred to in the ...
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Jan 4, 2022 · Belshazzar was the last king of ancient Babylon and is mentioned in Daniel 5. Belshazzar reigned for a short time during the life of Daniel the prophet. His name, meaning “Bel protect the king,” is a prayer to a Babylonian god; as his story shows, Bel was powerless to save this evil ruler. Belshazzar ruled Babylon, a powerful nation with a ...
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Jan 19, 2024 · Belshazzar is named as the king who was ruling in Babylon on the night the kingdom fell to the army of Cyrus the Great of Persia. In actual fact, he was co-regent with his father, Nabonidus, who ruled over Babylon for 17 years, from ca. 556–539 BC. The Harran Stela depicts King Nabonidus, Belshazzar’s father.
Jan 1, 2008 · Belshazzar’s Feast And The Fall Of Babylon. Article contributed by www.walvoord.com. Almost seventy years have passed since the events of chapter 1 of Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar himself had died in 562 B.C. Daniel does not record his immediate successors, and extrabiblical literature is somewhat confused. A plausible account of Berosus, in his ...
BELSHAZZAR bĕl shăz’ ər ( בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֖ר, Βαλτασάρ, prob. from Babylonian Bēl-šar-usūr, “the god Bel has protected the king”). Son of, and coregent with Nabonidus (556-539 b.c. ), the Chaldaean ruler at the time of the capture of Babylon by Darius the Mede in 539 b.c. ( Dan 5:30; 7:1 ).
