² While Belshazzar was drinking^(A) his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets^(B) that Nebuchadnezzar his father^[a] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines^(C) might drink from them.^(D)

⁷ Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the Lord and put them in his temple^[a] there.^(A)

¹⁰ The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon,^(A) Uruk,^(B) Akkad and Kalneh,^(C) in^[a] Shinar.^[b](D)