Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:24
Daniel 5:24. Then was the part of the hand sent— Therefore is the hand sent from him, the fingers whereof have formed this writing. Houbigant. read more
Daniel 5
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:25
Daniel 5:25. MENE, &c.— These words are fully explained by Daniel in the following verses. The word Mene is doubled, to shew that the thing is certain and established by God; as Joseph told Pharaoh in a similar case. read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:28
Daniel 5:28. The Medes and Persians— The kingdom of the Medes seems to have been but of short duration: it probably had its name of Media from מדי Madi, the third son of Japhet; but its first establishment into a kingdom is dated about 150 years before the reign of Cyrus. Sir Isaac Newton reckons up only five kings. Herodotus (lib. 1:) tells us, the first was Dejoces, a man of great prudence, and who reigned a long time. Phraortes his son succeeded him, whom Calmet judges to have been the... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:29
Daniel 5:29. They clothed Daniel— The clothing of Daniel with scarlet was an honour of a different kind from that mentioned, chap. Daniel 2:46. We have no custom of this kind. Persons receive favours of various sorts from princes; but the coming out from their presence in a different dress, is not an honour in use among us, though it is still practised in the East. Some doubt, however, may be made concerning the precise intention of thus clothing him; whether it was the investing him with the... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:30
Daniel 5:30. In that night was Belshazzar—slain— He and all his nobles were slain together, in the midst of their feasting and revels. Xenophon relates the history thus: Two deserters, Gadatas and Gobrias, having assisted some of the Persian army to kill the guards and seize upon the palace, entered the room where the king was, whom they found in a posture of defence; but they soon dispatched him and his attendants. See Xenoph. Cyropaed. lib. 7: and Bishop Chandler's Vindication, p. 17, 18... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:31
Daniel 5:31. And Darius the Median took the kingdom— And Darius the Mede accepted the kingdom; so the Syriac and Arabic versions. This Darius, in the ninth chapter, is said to be of the seed of the Medes, and is supposed by the most judicious chronologers to have been the same with Cyaxares, the son of Astyages. Cyrus made him king of the Chaldeans, as being his uncle by the mother's side; and left him the palace of the king of Babylon, to live there whenever he pleased. REFLECTIONS.—1st,... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5
CHAPTER 5 :-. BELSHAZZAR'S IMPIOUS FEAST; THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL INTERPRETED BY DANIEL OF THE DOOM OF BABYLON AND ITS KING. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:1
1. Belshazzar—RAWLINSON, from the Assyrian inscriptions, has explained the seeming discrepancy between Daniel and the heathen historians of Babylon, BEROSUS and ABYDENUS, who say the last king (Nabonidus) surrendered in Borsippa, after Babylon was taken, and had an honorable abode in Caramania assigned to him. Belshazzar was joint king with his father (called Minus in the inscriptions), but subordinate to him; hence the Babylonian account suppresses the facts which cast discredit on Babylon,... 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
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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:21
Daniel 5:21. The wild asses— See the beautiful description of the wild ass, in Job, chap. Job 39:5, &c. Instead of ruled, in the latter part of this verse, we may read ruleth. read more