Bible verse

Daniel 5:1

Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

Daniel 5:1 · BSB

Daniel 5:1 in context

The verses around it, from Daniel 5.

1 Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

2 Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.

3 Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.

4 As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

5 At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

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Daniel 5:1 in other translations

KJV

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

ASV

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

ERV

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

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