THEOSISDaniel 5:30Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.
בֵּ֚הּ בְּלֵ֣ילְיָ֔א קְטִ֕יל בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֥א כשדיא כַשְׂדָּאָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 51:31One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other:
- Jer 51:57And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is Lord of hosts.
- Isa 47:9These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.
- Jer 51:39In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.
- Isa 21:4My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
- Isa 21:9Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.
- Jer 51:11Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
- Dan 5:1Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.