² Under the influence of^[a] the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels^(A) that his predecessor^[b] Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines could drink from them.

⁴ They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.^(A)