◄ Daniel 5:30 ►
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Good News Translation
That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;

New Revised Standard Version
That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.

Contemporary English Version
That same night, the king was killed.

New American Bible
That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was slain:

Douay-Rheims Bible
The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.

Daniel 5:1,2 Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age. . . .

Isaiah 21:4-9 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me. . . .

Isaiah 47:9 These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.

Jeremiah 51:11,31,39,57 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. . . .

Context
Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
…29Then by the king's command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom. 30The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.31And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.…
Cross References
Isaiah 21:4
My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

Isaiah 47:9
These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.

Jeremiah 50:24
I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:11
Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

Jeremiah 51:31
One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other:

Daniel 5:1
Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.

Daniel 5:2
And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them.

Amos 6:7
Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.

Daniel 5:29
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