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Belshazzar
Babylonian king in Daniel
King in Daniel's banquet and handwriting-on-the-wall narrative.
Who or what is this?
ruler in Daniel 5 who hosts a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drinks from the gold and silver vessels his predecessors had carried off from the temple. As the company praises the gods of gold, silver, and stone, a disembodied hand writes mene, mene, tekel, parsin on the plaster wall, terrifying the king. is summoned to interpret the inscription as a verdict of judgment, and that very night Belshazzar is killed as falls to the and .
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