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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

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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:4

4. praised—sang and shouted praises to "gods," which being of gold, "are their own witnesses" (Isaiah 44:9), confuting the folly of those who fancy such to be gods. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

5. In the same hour—that the cause of God's visitation might be palpable, namely, the profanation of His vessels and His holy name. fingers of . . . hand—God admonishes him, not by a dream (as Nebuchadnezzar had been warned), or by a voice, but by "fingers coming forth," the invisibility of Him who moved them heightening the awful impressiveness of the scene, the hand of the Unseen One attesting his doom before the eyes of himself and his guilty fellow revellers. against the candlestick—the... read more

Thomas Constable

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

Some older critical scholars claimed that Belshazzar was never a king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. [Note: E.g., H. H. Rowley, "The Historicity of the Fifth Chapter of Daniel," Journal of Theological Studies 32 (October 1930):12.] However, modern discoveries have shown that Belshazzar acted as king during his father’s frequent and prolonged absences from Babylon."The last actual Chaldean king, Nabonidus, ’entrusted the kingship’ in 539 B.C. to his son Bel-sar-usur during his ten-year absence... 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

Thomas Constable

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

Like Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar received an omen from God. In Nebuchadnezzar’s case it was two dreams (chs. 1; 4). In Belshazzar’s, it was handwriting on a wall. The night of revelry became a night of revelation. [Note: Campbell, p. 59.] "In the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar’s palace archeologists have uncovered a large throne room 56 feet wide and 173 feet long which probably was the scene of this banquet. Midway in the long wall opposite the entrance there was a niche in front of which the king may... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 5:5-9

2. God’s revelation to Belshazzar 5:5-9 read more

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:1

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

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:4

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

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

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

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

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 5:5-9

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