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Daniel 5:30
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That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,
In that night Belshatztzar the Kasdai King was slain.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.
That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.
That very same night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonian people, was killed.
During that same night Belshazzar the [last] Chaldean king was slain [by troops of the invading army].
The same night was Belshazzar the King of the Caldeans slaine.
That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
That same night, the king was killed.
That very night Belshatzar, the king of the Kasdim, was killed.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
That very same night, Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was killed.
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;
That same night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.
In that night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, was killed.
The very same night was Balthasar the kynge off the Caldees slayne,
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Caldeans slaine.
The very same night was Balthasar the king of the Chaldees slaine.
In the same night was Baltasar the Chaldean king slain.
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
In the same niyt Balthasar, the kyng of Caldeis, was slayn;
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
That very night Belshazzar the king of Babylon was killed.
That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.
In that night, was slain - Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.
The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.
That very night Belshaz'zar the Chalde'an king was slain.
In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
That same night the Babylonian king Belshazzar was murdered. Darius the Mede was sixty-two years old when he succeeded him as king.
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Daniel 5:1, Daniel 5:2, Isaiah 21:4-9, Isaiah 47:9, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:31, Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:57
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:28 - heart is merry 1 Kings 16:9 - drinking 1 Kings 20:12 - drinking 2 Kings 19:35 - that night Job 14:5 - his days Job 27:20 - a tempest Job 34:20 - a moment Job 36:20 - cut Ecclesiastes 7:4 - the heart Isaiah 5:14 - he that rejoiceth Isaiah 47:8 - given Isaiah 47:13 - Let now Jeremiah 25:35 - the shepherds Jeremiah 50:24 - and thou wast Jeremiah 50:35 - upon her princes Jeremiah 51:52 - the wounded Daniel 7:1 - Belshazzar Daniel 8:4 - pushing Luke 16:25 - remember Acts 24:25 - temperance
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain. Not by a servant of his own, as Jacchiades; or by an eunuch, one of his guards, as Saadiah and Joseph ben Gorion b; but by Gadales and Gobryas, who led Cyrus's army up the river Euphrates into the city of Babylon, its course being turned; the inhabitants of which being revelling and rioting, and the gates open, these men went up to the king's palace; the doors of which being opened by the king's orders to know what was the matter, they rushed in, and finding him standing up with his sword drawn in his own defence, they fell upon him, and slew him, and all about him, as Xenophon c relates; and this was the same night the feast was, and the handwriting was seen, read, and interpreted. This was after a reign of seventeen years; for so Josephus says d, that Baltasar or Belshazzar, in whose reign Babylon was taken, reigned seventeen years; and so many years are assigned to him in Ptolemy's canon; though the Jewish chronicle e allows him but three years, very wrongly, no more of his reign being mentioned in Scripture: see Daniel 7:1. His death, according to Bishop Usher f, Mr. Whiston g, and Mr. Bedford h, was in the year of the world 3466 A.M., and 538 B.C. Dean Prideaux i places it in 539 B.C.
b Hist. Heb. l. 1. c. 6. p. 26. c Cyropaedia, l. 7. sect. 22, 23. d Antiqu. l. 10. c. 11. sect. 4. e Seder Olam Rabba, c. 28. p. 81. f Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3466. g Chronological Tables, cent. 10. h Scripture Chronology, p. 711. i Connexion, &c. par. 1. p. 120.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain - On the taking of Babylon, and the consequences, see the notes at Isaiah 13:17-22; Isaiah 45:1-2. The account which Xenophon (“Cyrop.” vii. s.) gives of the taking of Babylon. and of the death of the king - though without mentioning his name, agrees so well with the statement here, that it may be regarded as a strong confirmation of its correctness. After describing the preparation made to take the city by draining off the waters of the Euphrates, so as to leave the channel dry beneath the walls for the amy of Cyrus, and after recording the charge which Cyrus gave to his generals Gadatas and Gobryas, he adds, “And indeed those who were with Gobryas said that it would not be wonderful if the gates of the palace should be found open, “as the whole city that night seemed to be given up to revelry” ὥς ἐν κώμῳ γὰρ δοκεῖ ἡ πόλις πᾶσα εἶναι τῇδε τῇ νυκτί hōs en kōmō gar dokei hē polis pasa einai tēde tē nukti.
He then says that as they passed on, after entering the city, “of those whom they encountered, part being smitten died, part fled again back, and part raised a clamor. But those who were with Gobryas also raised a clamor as if they also joined in the revelry, and going as fast as they could, they came soon to the palace of the king. But those who were with Gobryas and Gadatas being arrayed, found the gates of the palace closed, but those who were appointed to go against the guard of the palace fell upon them when drinking before a great light, and were quickly engaged with them in hostile combat. Then a cry arose, and they who were within having asked the cause of the tumult, the king commanded them to see what the affair was, and some of them rushing out opened the gates. As they who were with Gadatas saw the gates open, they rushed in, and pursuing those who attempted to return, and smiting them, they came to the king, and they found him standing with a drawn sabre - ἀκινάκην akinakēn And those who were with Gadatas and Gobryas overpowered him, ἐχειροῦντο echeirounto - and those who were with him were slain - one opposing, and one fleeing, and one seeking his safety in the best way he could. And Cyrus sent certain of his horsemen away, and commanded that they should put to death those whom they found out of their dwellings, but that those who were in their houses, and could speak the Syriac language, should be suffered to remain, but that whosoever should be found without should be put to death.
“These things they did. But Gadatas and Gobryas came up; and first they rendered thanks to the gods because they had taken vengeance on the impious king - ὅτι τετιμωρημένοι ἦσαν τὸν ἀνόσιον βασιλέα hoti tetimōrēmenoi ēsan ton anosion basilea. Then they kissed the hands and feet of Cyrus, weeping with joy and rejoicing. When it was day, and they who had the watch over the towers learned that the city was taken, and “that the king was dead” - τὸν βασιλέα τεθνηκότα ton basilea tethnēkota - they also surrendered the towers.” These extracts from Xenophon abundantly confirm what is here said in Daniel respecting the death of the king, and will more than neutralize what is said by Berosus. See Intro. to the chapter, Section II.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Daniel 5:30. In that night was Belshazzar - slain. — Xenophon says, he was despatched by two lords, Gadatas and Gobrias, who went over to Cyrus, to avenge themselves of certain wrongs which Belshazzar had done them. We have already seen that Cyrus entered the city by the bed of the Euphrates, which he had emptied, by cutting a channel for the waters, and directing them into the marshy country.
