KJV King James Version
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Daniel 5:30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
WEB World English Bible
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
ASV American Standard Version
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
Surrounding context — Daniel 5
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and [put] a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, [being] about threescore and two years old.
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
Cross-references
Jeremiah 51:31One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at [one] end,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.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.Daniel 5:1-2Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.Isaiah 47:9But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of thine enchantments.Isaiah 21:4-9My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
Compare classic commentaries on Daniel 5:30
Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.
Compare commentaries →