Daniel 5 (NET)

Daniel 5:1¹King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for 1,000 of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Esth 1:3Mark 6:21-22Gen 40:20Isa 21:4-5Isa 22:12Isa 22:14Jer 51:39Jer 51:57Nah 1:10

Daniel 5:2²While 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 1:22 Kgs 24:132 Kgs 25:15Dan 5:23Ezra 1:7-11Jer 27:16-222 Chr 11:202 Chr 15:162 Chr 36:102 Chr 36:18

Daniel 5:3³So 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Daniel 5:4⁴As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:23Hab 2:19Ps 135:15-18Rev 9:20-21Acts 17:29Isa 40:19-20Isa 42:8Isa 46:6-7Jer 10:4-9Ps 115:4-8

Daniel 5:5⁵At 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:31Dan 5:24-281 Thess 5:2-3Col 2:14Job 20:5Dan 4:33Dan 5:15Dan 5:8Luke 12:19-20Prov 29:1

Daniel 5:6⁶Then 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 7:28Ezek 7:17Nah 2:10Dan 4:5Ezek 21:7Ps 69:23Dan 4:19Dan 5:9-10Isa 13:7-8Dan 2:1

Daniel 5:7⁷The king called out loudly to summon the astrologers, wise men, and diviners. The king proclaimed to the wise men of Babylon that anyone who could read this inscription and disclose its interpretation would be clothed in purple and have a golden collar placed on his neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:16Dan 5:29Dan 2:48Gen 41:42-44Dan 2:6Dan 6:2-3Dan 2:2Esth 10:2-3Ezek 16:11Gen 41:8

Daniel 5:8⁸So 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 2:27Dan 4:7Gen 41:8Dan 5:15Isa 47:12-15Isa 47:9

Daniel 5:9⁹Then King Belshazzar was very terrified, and he was visibly shaken. His nobles were completely dumbfounded.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:6Dan 2:1Isa 13:6-8Isa 21:2-4Jer 6:24Dan 10:8Jer 30:6Job 18:11-14Matt 2:3Ps 18:14

Daniel 5:10¹⁰Due 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!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 3:9Dan 2:4Dan 6:61 Kgs 1:311 Sam 4:20-22Dan 6:21Gen 35:17-18Job 13:4Job 21:34

Daniel 5:11¹¹There is a man in your kingdom who has within him a spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, he proved to have insight, discernment, and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar your father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:8-9Dan 2:47-48Dan 4:18Dan 5:142 Sam 14:17Acts 12:22Dan 2:11Gen 41:11-15Acts 14:11Rev 3:9

Daniel 5:12¹²Thus there was found in this man Daniel, whom the king renamed Belteshazzar, an extraordinary spirit, knowledge, and skill to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve difficult problems. Now summon Daniel, and he will disclose the interpretation.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:14Dan 6:3Dan 1:7Dan 5:16Prov 12:26Dan 4:8Ps 16:32 Chr 9:1-2Prov 17:271 Kgs 10:1-3

Daniel 5:13¹³So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives of Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 6:13Dan 5:11Dan 2:25Ezra 10:16Ezra 4:1Ezra 6:16Ezra 6:19-20John 7:3Dan 1:21Dan 2:48

Daniel 5:14¹⁴I have heard about you, how there is a spirit of the gods in you, and how you have insight, discernment, and extraordinary wisdom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:11-12

Daniel 5:15¹⁵Now 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:7-8Isa 47:12Dan 2:3-11Isa 29:10-12

Daniel 5:16¹⁶However, I have heard that you are able to provide interpretations and to solve difficult problems. Now if you are able to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, you will wear purple and have a golden collar around your neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:7Dan 5:29Gen 40:8Acts 8:18

Daniel 5:17¹⁷But 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:16Gen 14:232 Kgs 3:132 Kgs 5:26Acts 8:20Dan 2:6Dan 5:29Ps 119:46

Daniel 5:18¹⁸As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 2:37-38Dan 4:17Dan 4:22-25Acts 26:13Acts 26:19Acts 7:48Dan 3:17-18Dan 4:2Dan 4:32Dan 6:22

Daniel 5:19¹⁹Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 2:12-13Dan 3:6Dan 3:4Dan 3:20-21Dan 3:29Dan 4:22Hab 2:5Jer 25:9-14Jer 27:5-7John 19:11

Daniel 5:20²⁰And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:142 Chr 36:13Exod 9:17Heb 3:13Jer 13:18Prov 16:18Isa 14:12-17Jer 19:15Job 40:11-12Prov 16:5

Daniel 5:21²¹He was driven from human society; his mind was changed to that of an animal. He lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:25Ezek 17:24Dan 4:17Dan 4:35Dan 4:32-33Exod 9:14-16Job 30:3-7Ps 83:17-18Dan 4:37

Daniel 5:22²²“But you, his son Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, although you knew all this.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:23Exod 10:32 Chr 36:12Jas 4:171 Pet 5:5-6Jas 4:6Acts 4:8-13Acts 5:29-33Dan 5:18Isa 26:10

Daniel 5:23²³Instead, 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!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 12:10Dan 4:37Isa 2:12Isa 37:23Jer 10:23Jer 50:29Job 31:4Prov 20:24Ps 115:4-82 Kgs 14:10

Daniel 5:24²⁴Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:5

Daniel 5:25²⁵“This is the writing that was inscribed: mene, mene, teqel, and pharsin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Daniel 5:26²⁶This is the interpretation of the words: As for Mene —God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 47:1-15Jer 25:11-12Jer 27:7Acts 15:18Dan 9:2Isa 13:1-14Isa 21:1-10Jer 50:1-46Job 14:14

Daniel 5:27²⁷As for Teqel —you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 31:61 Cor 3:13Ps 62:9Ezek 22:18-20Jer 6:30Matt 22:11-12

Daniel 5:28²⁸As for Peres —your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 6:28Isa 13:17Dan 5:31Isa 21:2Isa 45:1-2Dan 8:20Dan 9:1Dan 8:3-4

Daniel 5:29²⁹Then, 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:16Dan 5:7

Daniel 5:30³⁰And that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 51:31Jer 51:39Jer 51:57Dan 5:1-2Isa 21:4-9Isa 47:9Jer 51:11

Daniel 5:31³¹(6:1) So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 9:1Dan 6:1