Daniel 5:1

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Belshazzar Sees Mysterious Handwriting on a Wall King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.

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  • Esth 1:3 : 3 in the third year of his reign he provided a banquet for all his officials and his servants. The army of Persia and Media was present, as well as the nobles and the officials of the provinces.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 At that time the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
  • Isa 22:14 : 14 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Certainly this sin will not be forgiven as long as you live,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Jer 51:39 : 39 When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” says the LORD.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 “I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her governors, leaders, and warriors. They will fall asleep forever and never wake up,” says the King whose name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
  • Mark 6:21-22 : 21 But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee. 22 When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl,“Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you.”
  • Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror. 5 Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
  • Gen 40:20 : 20 On the third day it was Pharaoh’s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He“lifted up” the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

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  • Dan 5:2-6
    5 verses
    87%

    2While under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels– the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father had confiscated from the temple in Jerusalem– so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them.

    3So they brought the gold and silver vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.

    4As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

    5At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.

    6Then all the color drained from the king’s face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together.

  • Dan 5:8-10
    3 verses
    78%

    8So all the king’s wise men came in, but they were unable to read the writing or to make known its interpretation to the king.

    9Then King Belshazzar was very terrified, and he was visibly shaken. His nobles were completely dumbfounded.

    10Due to the noise caused by the king and his nobles, the queen mother then entered the banquet room. She said,“O king, live forever! Don’t be alarmed! Don’t be shaken!

  • Dan 5:22-24
    3 verses
    77%

    22“But you, his son Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, although you knew all this.

    23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

    24Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.

  • Dan 5:29-30
    2 verses
    77%

    29Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom.

    30And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.

  • Esth 1:7-10
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    7Drinks were served in golden containers, all of which differed from one another. Royal wine was available in abundance at the king’s expense.

    8There were no restrictions on the drinking, for the king had instructed all of his supervisors that they should do as everyone so desired.

    9Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus’ royal palace.

    10Queen Vashti is Removed from Her Royal Position On the seventh day, as King Ahasuerus was feeling the effects of the wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who attended him,

  • Esth 1:2-5
    4 verses
    73%

    2In those days, as King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa the citadel,

    3in the third year of his reign he provided a banquet for all his officials and his servants. The army of Persia and Media was present, as well as the nobles and the officials of the provinces.

    4He displayed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor of his majestic greatness for a lengthy period of time– a hundred and eighty days, to be exact!

    5When those days were completed, the king then provided a seven-day banquet for all the people who were present in Susa the citadel, for those of highest standing to the most lowly. It was held in the court located in the garden of the royal palace.

  • Dan 1:5
    72%

    5So the king assigned them a daily ration from his royal delicacies and from the wine he himself drank. They were to be trained for the next three years. At the end of that time they were to enter the king’s service.

  • Ezra 1:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    1030 gold bowls, 410 other silver bowls, and 1,000 other vessels.

    11All these gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all along when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

  • Jer 25:26
    71%

    26all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the LORD’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.

  • Neh 5:17
    70%

    17There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, in addition to those who came to us from the nations all around us.

  • Dan 7:1
    69%

    1Daniel has a Vision of Four Animals Coming up from the Sea In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream filled with visions while he was lying on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream in summary fashion.

  • Jer 35:5
    69%

    5Then I set cups and pitchers full of wine in front of the members of the Rechabite community and said to them,“Have some wine.”

  • Gen 43:34
    69%

    34He gave them portions of the food set before him, but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk.

  • Dan 4:6
    69%

    6So I issued an order for all the wise men of Babylon to be brought before me so that they could make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

  • Dan 1:13
    69%

    13Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who are eating the royal delicacies; deal with us in light of what you see.”

  • Jer 51:7
    69%

    7Babylonia had been a gold cup in the LORD’s hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. So they have all gone mad.

  • Ezra 6:1
    69%

    1Darius Issues a Decree So Darius the king issued orders, and they searched in the archives of the treasury which were deposited there in Babylon.

  • Dan 5:15
    69%

    15Now the wise men and astrologers were brought before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation. But they were unable to disclose the interpretation of the message.

  • Esth 5:5
    68%

    5The king replied,“Find Haman quickly so that we can do as Esther requests.”So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

  • Dan 1:2
    68%

    2Now the Lord delivered King Jehoiakim of Judah into his power, along with some of the vessels of the temple of God. He brought them to the land of Babylonia to the temple of his god and put the vessels in the treasury of his god.

  • Dan 6:1
    68%

    1Daniel is Thrown into a Lions’ Den It seemed like a good idea to Darius to appoint over the kingdom 120 satraps who would be in charge of the entire kingdom.

  • Dan 3:2
    68%

    2Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent out a summons to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other authorities of the province to attend the dedication of the statue that he had erected.

  • Dan 4:18
    68%

    18“This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its interpretation, for none of the wise men in my kingdom are able to make known to me the interpretation. But you can do so, for a spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

  • Prov 31:5
    68%

    5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

  • Esth 1:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13The king then inquired of the wise men who were discerners of the times– for it was the royal custom to confer with all those who were proficient in laws and legalities.

    14Those who were closest to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan. These men were the seven officials of Persia and Media who saw the king on a regular basis and had the most prominent offices in the kingdom.

  • Eccl 10:17
    68%

    17Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time– with self-control and not in drunkenness.

  • Esth 2:18
    68%

    18Then the king prepared a large banquet for all his officials and his servants– it was actually Esther’s banquet. He also set aside a holiday for the provinces, and he provided for offerings at the king’s expense.

  • Dan 5:17
    68%

    17Daniel Interprets the Handwriting on the Wall But Daniel replied to the king,“Keep your gifts, and give your rewards to someone else! However, I will read the writing for the king and make known its interpretation.

  • Hos 7:5
    68%

    5At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.

  • Ezra 1:7
    68%

    7Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the LORD’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed in the temple of his gods.

  • Esth 7:1
    68%

    1The King Has Haman Executed So the king and Haman came to dine with Queen Esther.

  • Isa 21:5
    67%

    5Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!