daniel-5:10-24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:23

He instanceth in three or four things. 1. They have brought the vessels of his house before thee to drink wine in them, to profane them in your idolatrous feast, and ye have all polluted them with your filthy, blasphemous mouths, concubines and all. 2. Ye have praised the idol gods of metal, wood, and stone, which cannot hear, nor see, nor know. 3. And hast not glorified the true God, in whose hands thy breath is, and all thy ways. Yea, thou hast highly dishonoured, and affronted, and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 5:24

It is called part of the hand, because the hand appeared parted from the rest of the body. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Daniel 5:1-31

HOMILETICSSECT. XVII.—BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST (Chap. 5.)This chapter deservedly a favourite with general readers [126]. The magnificence, excitement, and revelry of the royal feast; the profligate king, when heated with wine, calling for the sacred vessels of the Temple, and, with his princes, wives, and concubines, drinking out of them to the honour of heathen deities; the sudden appearance, in the midst of the carousal, of a weird hand, tracing distinct but unintelligible characters on the wall;... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Daniel 5:1-31

Daniel 5:1-31 I. Belshazzar's feast was characterised by great intemperance. II. It was characterised by great profanity. III. This night was one of supernatural visitation. IV. This was a night of terrible retribution. W. M. Taylor, Daniel the Beloved, p. 98. References: Daniel 5:1-31 . W. M. Taylor, Contemporary Pulpit, vol. iv., p. 240. Daniel 5:5 . R. Payne-Smith, Homiletic Magazine, vol. xi., p. 158. Daniel 5:10-23 . Ibid. p. 220. read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Daniel 5:16

Daniel 5:16 Note: I. The three principal sources and causes whence our doubts arise, and from which they get force to make their assault. They never come of truth or high discovery, but always of the want of it. (1) All the truths of religion are inherently dubitable. They are only what are called probable, never necessary truths, like the truths of geometry or of numbers. (2) We begin life as unknowing creatures that have everything to learn. We grope, and groping is doubt; we handle, we... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Daniel 5:22

DISCOURSE: 1127IMPENITENCE REPROVEDDaniel 5:22. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this.AMONGST the endowments of a pious minister, two of the most important are, disinterestedness and fidelity. A man who is “looking to his own gain,” or is afraid to “declare the whole counsel of God,” is unworthy of the sacred office: nor can he hope to be either profitable to man, or accepted of God. The example of the Prophet Daniel is worthy of universal... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Daniel 5:23

DISCOURSE: 1128BELSHAZZAR’S IMPIETY AND OURS COMPAREDDaniel 5:23. The God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.WHEN we look around us, and see what iniquity prevails in the earth, we are ready to imagine that God does not notice the affairs of men, or take any interest in their conduct. But, when we open the inspired volume, we find that, on many occasions, the sins of men have been so strongly marked in their punishment, as to bear ample testimony to... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Daniel 5:11

thy father Or, grandfather. See note 2, (See Scofield " :-") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Daniel 5:1-31

Shall we turn now in our Bible to Daniel, chapter 5.Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousands ( Daniel 5:1 ).There are men who call themselves Bible scholars and they belong to a school known as "higher criticism." And for years these men declared that the book of Daniel was not valid. And one of their reasons for this declaration was that in secular history they had not discovered the name Belshazzar. But one of ancient historians,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 5:1-31

Daniel 5:2 . Belshazzar his father Nebuchadnezzar. Belshazzar was the son of Evilmerodach, and grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. The empire therefore falling at this time, fulfilled the prophecy, that all nations should serve Nebuchadnezzar, and his son, and his son’s son. Jeremiah 27:7. Having spoken of the fall of Babylon on Isaiah 13:14. and elsewhere, I shall subjoin some reflections from one of my sermons. Daniel 5:4 . They drank wine and praised the gods of gold. Here the king first... read more