Protestantism
English
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine;
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.
King Belshazzar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes, and dranke wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
1 Belshazzar’s impious feast. 5 A hand writing, unknown to the Magitians, troubles the king. 10 At the commendation of the queen, Daniel is brought. 17 He reproving the king of pride and idolatry, 25 reads and interprets the writing. 30 The monarchy is translated to the Medes.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.
Later,1 King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- Aramaic does not include Later. Some translators include Many years later to account for the time elapsed, probably about 30 years, since the previous chapter.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.
BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
The Mysterious Writing on the Wall
Belshazzar the king made a great festival for a thousand of his lords,1 and ⌞in the presence of⌟2 the thousand lords he was drinking wine.3
- Or “nobles”
- Literally “to over against”
- Or “the wine”
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles. And he drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar, the king gave a great feast to his thousands lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his masters, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king, made a great feast, to a thousand of his nobles,—and, before the thousand, was drinking, wine.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Catholicism
English
Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.
Baltasar’s profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting on the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets.
Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and each one of them drank according to his age.1
- 5:1Baltasar: He is believed to be the same as Nabonydus, the last of the Chaldean kings, grandson to Nebuchadnezzar. He is called his son, ver. 2, 11, etc., according to the style of the scriptures, because he was a descendant from him.(Challoner)