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30 And that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king,[a] was killed.[b]

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  1. Daniel 5:30 tn Aram “king of the Chaldeans.”
  2. Daniel 5:30 sn The year was 539 b.c. At this time Daniel would have been approximately eighty-one years old. The relevant extra-biblical records describing the fall of Babylon include portions of Herodotus, Xenophon, Berossus (cited in Josephus), the Cyrus Cylinder, and the Babylonian Chronicle.