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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 ...
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 ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Belshazzar’s feast: summary. The story of Belshazzar’s feast occupies the entire fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel. Quotations below are from the King James Version. 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. The problem is, Belshazzar and his court don’t praise Yahweh/God ...
Belshazzar appears as a central character in the story of Belshazzar's feast in the Biblical Book of Daniel, recognized by scholars as a work of historical fiction. [5] [6] [7] Daniel 's Belshazzar is not malevolent (he, for instance, rewards Daniel for his interpretation of " the writing on the wall "), but in later Jewish tradition Belshazzar ...
- Bēl-šar-uṣur
- Nabonidus
- Chaldean dynasty, (matrilineal) (?)
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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 ).
New King James Version. Belshazzar’s Feast. 5 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. 2 While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his [ a]father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem ...
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 ...
