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Text -- Daniel 5:1-3 (NET)
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Belshazzar Sees Mysterious Handwriting on a Wall
5:1 King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles , and he was drinking wine in front of them all .
5:2 While 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.
5:3 So 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.
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NET Notes: Dan 5:2 Making use of sacred temple vessels for an occasion of reveling and drunkenness such as this would have been a religious affront of shocking proportio...
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