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Daniel 5:1-2
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Daniel 5:1-2
English Standard Version
The Handwriting on the Wall
5 (A)King Belshazzar (B)made a great feast for a thousand of his (C)lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
2 (D)Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that (E)the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father[a] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
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- Daniel 5:2 Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18
Daniel 5:4
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Daniel 5:4
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4 They drank wine and (A)praised the (B)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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