Belshazzar’s Feast

Belshazzar the king (A)made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.

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The Writing on the Wall

King Belshazzar(A) gave a great banquet(B) for a thousand of his nobles(C) and drank wine with them.

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Belshazzar’s Fall

30 (A)That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. 31 (B)And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

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30 That very night Belshazzar,(A) king(B) of the Babylonians,[a] was slain,(C) 31 and Darius(D) the Mede(E) took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans
  2. Daniel 5:31 In Aramaic texts this verse (5:31) is numbered 6:1.

Daniel’s Prayer for the People

In the first year (A)of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—

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Daniel’s Prayer

In the first year of Darius(A) son of Xerxes[a](B) (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian[b] kingdom—

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:1 Hebrew Ahasuerus
  2. Daniel 9:1 Or Chaldean