Co-regent of Babylon · Babylonian empire, 539 BC

Belshazzar in the Bible

Drinking from the vessels taken from the temple, Belshazzar sees a hand writing on the plaster. Daniel reads it: numbered, weighed, divided. The city falls that night. Cuneiform texts name him as son of Nabonidus, ruling in his father's absence — which explains the offer of third place in the kingdom.

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Verses mentioning Belshazzar

8 occurrences across 8 verses in the King James Version.

  1. Daniel 5:1

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

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  2. Daniel 5:2

    Belshazzar, 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. father: or, grandfather taken: Cald. brought forth

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  3. Daniel 5:9

    Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. countenance: Cald. brightnesses

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  4. Daniel 5:22

    And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

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  5. Daniel 5:29

    Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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  6. Daniel 5:30

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

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  7. Daniel 7:1

    In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. had: Cald. saw matters: or, words

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  8. Daniel 8:1

    In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.

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