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|Daniel 5:1|
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.
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2
|Daniel 5:2|
While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father [Or ancestor; or predecessor; also in verses 11, 13 and 18] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.
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3
|Daniel 5:3|
So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.
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4
|Daniel 5:4|
As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
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5
|Daniel 5:5|
Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
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|Daniel 5:6|
His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way.
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|Daniel 5:7|
The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers [Or Chaldeans; also in verse 11] and diviners to be brought and said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
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|Daniel 5:8|
Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant.
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9
|Daniel 5:9|
So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew more pale. His nobles were baffled.
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10
|Daniel 5:10|
The queen, [Or queen mother] hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. “O king, live for ever!” she said. “Don’t be alarmed! Don’t look so pale!
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