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Dan. 5:30 KJV (With Strong’s)

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In that nightv was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

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Jer. 51:31,39• ³¹Courier runneth to meet courier, and messenger to meet messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end;
³⁹When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 51:31,39)

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Dan. 5:1‑2• ¹Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.
²Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink in them. (Dan. 5:1‑2)

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Isa. 21:4‑9• ⁴My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.
⁵Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.
⁶For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
⁷And he saw chariots, horsemen by pairs, a chariot with asses, a chariot with camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed.
⁸And he cried as a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.
⁹--And behold, there cometh a chariot of men; horsemen by pairs. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. (Isa. 21:4‑9)

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Isa. 47:9• ⁹yet these two things shall come upon thee in a moment, in one day, loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, for the great abundance of thine enchantments. (Isa. 47:9)

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Jer. 51:11,31,39,57• ¹¹Sharpen the arrows; take the shields. Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for this is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.
³¹Courier runneth to meet courier, and messenger to meet messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end;
³⁹When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
⁵⁷And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts. (Jer. 51:11,31,39,57)

• A few words should perhaps be said upon the question of the historical event alluded to when Belshazzar was thus surprised and slain in his capital. Isaiah is thought to refer to the capture of Babylon by Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1-2; and in Isaiah 47 he speaks expressly of her sudden destruction (Dan. 5:11-15; see also Isa. 21:1-9). Jeremiah also prophecies with more detail of the surprise and taking of Babylon, and that in connection with the Medes (Isa. 51:28-32); and this of the two prophecies would rather point to the event recorded in our chapter. There are those who, in the hopeless confusion of the pretended histories of the past, seek to establish the identity of Darius with Cyrus; but the Scripture narrative is clear that Darius took the kingdom, and that Cyrus is subsequently found in its possession. (“Daniel 5” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.