KJV King James Version
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
WEB World English Bible
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
ASV American Standard Version
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine;
Surrounding context — Daniel 5
1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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.
3 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.
4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֣רH1113 · be.le.shats.tsarBelshazzarמַלְכָּ֗אH4430 · me.lekhkingעֲבַד֙H5648 · a.vadto makeלְחֶ֣םH3900 · le.chemfeastרַ֔בH7229 · ravgreatלְרַבְרְבָנ֖וֹהִיH7261 · rav.re.vannobleאֲלַ֑ףH506 · a.laphthousandוְלָקֳבֵ֥לH6903 · qe.velbeforeאַלְפָּ֖אH506 · a.laphthousandחַמְרָ֥אH2562 · cha.marwineשָׁתֵֽה׃H8355 · she.tahto drink
Cross-references
Esther 1:3In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, [being] before him:Mark 6:21-22And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief [estates] of Galilee;Isaiah 21:4-5My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.Nahum 1:10For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.Genesis 40:20And it came to pass the third day, [which was] Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.Isaiah 22:14And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.
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