⁹ Zimri, one of his officials, who had command of half his chariots, plotted against him. Elah was in Tirzah at the time, getting drunk^(A) in the home of Arza, the palace administrator^(B) at Tirzah.

The Writing on the Wall

5 King Belshazzar^(A) gave a great banquet^(B) for a thousand of his nobles^(C) and drank wine with them. ² While Belshazzar was drinking^(D) his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets^(E) that Nebuchadnezzar his father^[a] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines^(F) might drink from them.^{(G) 3} So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. ⁴ As they drank the wine, they praised the gods^(H) of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.^(I)

³ and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, his palace administrator.^(A) (Obadiah was a devout believer^(B) in the Lord.

⁴ Joseph found favor in his eyes^(A) and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household,^(B) and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.^(C)

² He said to the senior servant^(A) in his household, the one in charge of all that he had,^(B) “Put your hand under my thigh.^(C)

³⁴ “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life,^(A) and that day will close on you suddenly^(B) like a trap.

⁴⁹ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.^{(A) 50} The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. ⁵¹ He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.^(B)