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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• ³¹One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
³⁹In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord. (Jer. 51:31,39)

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

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Isa. 21:4‑9• ⁴My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
⁵Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
⁶For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
⁷And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
⁸And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
⁹And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. 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• ⁹But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. (Isa. 47:9)

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Jer. 51:11,31,39,57• ¹¹Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
³¹One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
³⁹In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
⁵⁷And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord 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.