Daniel 5:2-3 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 5:3-4

Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. The corresponding verses in the Septuagint differ in several points from those above; the Septuagint third verse contains, condensed, the Massoretic third and fourth verses, but adds new matter in its... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:2-3

Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine - As the effect of tasting the wine - stating a fact which is illustrated in every age and land, that men, under the influence of intoxicating drinks, will do what they would not do when sober. In his sober moments it would seem probable that he would have respected the vessels consecrated to the service of religion, and would not have treated them with dishonor by introducing them for purposes of revelry.Commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels -... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 5:2-4

Daniel 5:2-4. Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine When he grew warm with wine, Houb. Commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels, &c. Triumphing thereby over God and his people. They drank wine Made themselves merry with wine. And praised the gods of gold, &c. Praised, as gods, senseless images of gold, silver, brass, iron, &c.; thus insulting the great God of heaven and earth, as if these images were more powerful than he, and had enabled them to prevail against him... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 5:1-31

Belshazzar’s feast (5:1-31)The events of this chapter took place in 539 BC. If Daniel was about fifteen years of age when taken captive to Babylon in 605 BC, he would now be over eighty. Nebuchadnezzar had long been dead. The present king, Nabonidus, was absent in distant territories for much of his reign, and the rule of the country was largely in the hands of his son Belshazzar. The queen who appears in the story (v. 10) was probably the queen mother, wife of Nabonidus. Nebuchadnezzar is... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 5:2

vessels . Compare Daniel 1:2 ; and see 2 Kings 25:15 . 2 Chronicles 36:10 . father Nebuchadnezzar . No "historical difficulty". Critics should tell us what word Daniel could have used, seeing there is no word in Chaldee or Hebrew for "grandfather". The word "father" is used by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6 , for ancestor. Compare 1 Kings 15:11-13 , where David is called the "father" of Asa, and Maachah is called his mother (compare 2 Kings 15:1 , 2 Kings 15:2 with 11-13).... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:2

Daniel 5:2. Whiles he tasted the wine— When he grew warm with wine. Houbigant. The golden and silver vessels here spoken of, were those carried by Nebuchadnezzar from the temple of Jerusalem to the treasure-house of his god, (see chap. Daniel 1:2.) and which were there set apart for religious uses. So that this farther profanation of them, as Dr. Prideaux observes, was contrary to the rules of their own religion, and may be supposed to have been committed by Belshazzar in an excessive riot of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:2

2. whiles he tasted the wine—While under the effects of wine, men will do what they dare not do when sober. his father Nebuchadnezzar—that is, his forefather. So "Jesus . . . the son of David, the son of Abraham" ( :-). Daniel does not say that the other kings mentioned in other writers did not reign between Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar, namely, Evil-merodach (Jeremiah 52:31), Neriglissar, his brother-in-law, and Laborasoarchod (nine months). BEROSUS makes Nabonidus, the last king, to have... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:3

3. This act was not one of necessity, or for honor's sake, but in reckless profanity. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 5:1-4

1. Belshazzar’s dishonoring of Yahweh 5:1-4 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 5:2-4

Nebuchadnezzar was Belshazzar’s grandfather rather than his father, but the original language commonly used "father" in the sense of ancestor."Neither in Hebrew, nor in Chaldee, is there any word for ’grandfather,’ ’grandson.’ Forefathers are called ’fathers’ or ’fathers’ fathers.’ But a single grandfather, or forefather, is never called ’father’s father’ but always ’father’ only." [Note: Pusey, p. 346.] Evidently the vessels taken from the Jerusalem temple had been stored as trophies of war... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 5:3-4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:2-3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 5:2-4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 5:1-31

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 5:2

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 5:1-4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 5:2-4

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