Belshazzar's feast; Babylon falls
Belshazzar drank from the Jerusalem temple vessels until a hand wrote judgment on the wall. Daniel read the message that the kingdom had been weighed and divided, and that very night Belshazzar was killed as Babylon passed to the Medes and Persians (Daniel 5:1-31).
1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them. 2Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines. 3Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
