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Belshazzar’s Festival

King Belshazzar put on a great festival for a thousand of his officials. He joined all[a] one thousand of them in getting drunk. Under the influence of wine, Belshazzar ordered that the gold and silver vessels his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem be brought in so the king, his officials, his wives, and his mistresses[b] could drink from them.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:1 The Aram. lacks all
  2. Daniel 5:2 Or concubines; i.e. secondary wives