King Belshazzar gave a big party for 1000 of his officials. 117-20. He was followed by King Belshazzar who ascended the throne in 3387 (374 BCE). feast at which the writing appeared on the wall, Belshazzar was killed and Darius the Mede took over Babylon (Daniel 5:30). [43], Regardless of any potential animosity between Nabonidus and Belshazzar, Belshazzar retained the status of crown prince and intended successor, as a handful of documents still reference the "son of the king". (Daniel 5) and predicted the assassination of the corrupt King Belshazzar (her grandfather) by Medean spies. Nabonidus), but during the period of the regency there are references to both "offerings to the king" and "offerings to the son of the king". Belshazzar's reign as king (not when he was acting in his father's stead) was incredibly brief and he only ruled two years before the Persians took over Babylon in 539 B.C. Verse 2 cites that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines drink from them; and this fact is restated in the actual act in verse 3 where only the golden vessels are mentioned. Finally, the tidings come, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground (Is 21:9). Nabonidus also sometimes sent orders to Belshazzar, which Belshazzar was forced to respect and implement. The text is definitely from the sixth century B.C. Within these walls were beautiful avenues, parks, and palaces. Only when Nebuchadnezzar was properly humbled did God restore him to his glory and kingdom. The command given to Abraham to cut in pieces three heifers (Genesis 15:9) as a part of the covenant established between him and his God was thus elucidated as symbolizing Babylonia, which gave rise to three kings, Nebuchadnezzar, Amel-Marduk, and Belshazzar, whose doom is prefigured by this act of "cutting to pieces" (Midrash Genesis Rabbah xliv.). Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. It would have been quite improper for the entire company to keep on talking, especially in these dramatic circumstances, when Daniel was reporting to the king. The temple in Jerusalem is completed. 216-17, who discusses this quotation from Pusey. In Babylonia, temples usually carried out offerings to the king, such as sacrificing a specified number of sheep. Some have claimed that the text does not plainly indicate the language. It is possible in the decline of the Babylonian Empire that the number of the wise men was far more limited at this point in history than it was under Nebuchadnezzars reign. Belshazzar (prince of Bel), the last king of Babylon.In ( Daniel 5:2) Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar.This, of course, need only mean grandfather or ancestor. Daniel is clothed with scarlet, a chain of gold put about his neck, and a proclamation issued that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. The Bible refers to him as his son ( Daniel 5:2 ), but really the original language seems to hint they're family, or. So great was his genius that Nebuchadnezzar had made him master or chief of his wise men, which in itself was a remarkable position for one who was not a Chaldean; and this honor placed upon him testified to the confidence of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniels abilities. Nabonidus left Babylon in May 553 BC to campaign in the west. But for Belshazzar, Daniel immediately speaks out and delivers the cold hard facts. The Cross And Separation From The World (1 Peter 4:1-6), 7. As the writing according to Daniel was written over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the kings palace, it may have appeared in an area of greater illumination than the rest of the room and thus also have attracted more attention. The Cross And Unjust Suffering (1 Peter 2:19-25). As Young points out, however, the very character of this absolute authority delegated to Nebuchadnezzar by God also made Nebuchadnezzar responsible.277 This is demonstrated and supported by Nebuchadnezzars experience of insanity in Daniel 4 when, as Daniel expresses it, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. Daniel then itemizes in detail the characteristics of Nebuchadnezzars insanity, how he lived with the wild beasts, ate grass like the ox, and was wet with the dew of heaven. Daniel first reminds Belshazzar that God gave Nebuchadnezzar his great kingdom and the honor that went with it. Was Nebuchadnezzar a believer? It may well be that because of awareness of his ancestry and religious convictions that Daniel had been demoted by Belshazzar himself. He delivered into his (1:e., Cyrus) hands Nabonidus, the king who did not worship him (i.e., Marduk).287. Daniel read the writing and Belshazzar made him the third ruler in the kingdom. The crisis produced by the inability of the wise men to interpret the handwriting on the wall is met by the entrance of one described as the queen. Much speculation surrounds the identity of this person as it is related to the larger question of Belshazzars lineage. What do I do about calling a priest father at my Catholic University? (Cf. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel, p. 115. Midway in the long wall opposite the entrance there was a niche in front of which the king may well have been seated. Daniel 6:16, Darius hurries to the lions den the following day to see what happened to Daniel and learns to his astonishment that Daniel is unharmed. Nebuchadnezzar II, also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, (born c. 630died c. 561 bce), second and greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia (reigned c. 605-c. 561 bce). How God holds in derision the rulers of the world who take counsel against Him (Ps 2:1-4)! They were said to have had enough food stored up for 20 years. The information embodied in these two visions, insofar as Daniel understood it, therefore was known to Daniel before the event of chapter 5 which chronologically came after chapters 7 and 8. 1., and Xenophon, inform us. See also Leupold, pp. The effect upon the king and his associates was immediate. The drama of the writing on the wall and its interpretation is now brought to its fulfillment as Belshazzar keeps his promise. Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield (Is 21:4-5). Belshazzars predicament is another illustration of the insecurity and powerlessness of the rulers of this world when confronted by the power and wisdom of God. In the ruins of Nebuchadnezzars palace archeologists have uncovered a large throne room 56 feet wide and 173 feet long which probably was the scene of this banquet. In the same hour came forth fingers of a mans hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the kings palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Belshazzar (Balthazar), on the other hand, disappeared from history around 540 BC, when Darius the Great would have been roughly ten years of age. 208-14. [29] It is probable that Nabonidus, a reformer, and Belshazzar, apparently more religiously conservative, did not see eye to eye in religious matters. Daniel 1:3-7, Daniel and his friends complete their three years of learning. He promises both to read and to make known the interpretation. The Medes and Persians managed to slip into the city secretly while all the Babylonians feasted. Daniel 3:16-18, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are thrown into the furnace but are unharmed. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. The Cross And Christs Suffering For Sins (1 Peter 3:18-22), 6. Daniel 1:1-2, Jeremiah 25:1), Jehoiakim died, and his son Jehoiachin became king (2 Kings 24:6). As one holding her position was normally highly regarded and treated with respect, she could speak out in a way that no other could do. [21] Belshazzar is recorded as owning lands throughout Babylonia, for instance owning an agricultural settlement near Uruk. 288 John C. Whitcomb, Jr., Darius the Mede, p. 73. Interestingly, the wall behind the niche was covered with white plaster as described by Daniel, which would make an excellent background for such a writing.268. See J. T. Milik, Priere de Nabonide et autres ecrits dun cycle de Daniel, Revue Biblique 63:407-15. Against Apion, in Josephus 1:221-25. He praises God, and after seven months, his sanity is restored. Belshazzar is best identified as his son, whose mother was either a wife or a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and thereby strengthened the claim of Nabonidus to the throne. The same was true in the Gentile world, and the dowager queen was able to enter the banquet hall without an invitation. That king soon died, leaving the throne to his son, Belshazzar's cousin, who was assassinated by order of Nabonidus. He was clearly the highest legal authority in Babylonia during Nabonidus's absence. This would be understandable if she was elderly and the widow of Nebuchadnezzar. A system of inner and outer walls with a water moat between the walls made the city very secure. The Babylonian chronicles describe the actions and conquests of Cyrus in detail throughout Belshazzar's regency. Nabonidus also had certain inscriptions made during the period of the regency edited to add prayers urging Belshazzar and the people of Babylonia to accept and receive Sn's blessing. 115-19; Keil, pp. Belshazzar was not allowed to officiate and oversee the Babylonian. Although such ancient records are notoriously inaccurate and at best are fragmentary, the argument of the critics was that Belshazzar never existed because his name did not appear in any of the ancient records. Montgomery, opposing the idea that the queen is Belshazzars wife, comments, Also the ladys masterful appearance on the scene betokens rather the queen-mother than the consort.274 Jeffery, likewise, writes, she speaks to him of his father in a way that suggests a mother speaking to a son rather than a wife to a husband.275. Like Nebuchadnezzar before him, Belshazzar was soon to experience divine judgment but without the happy ending. [22], As he was clearly the main beneficiary of the coup, Belshazzar was likely the chief orchestrator of the conspiracy ended in the deposition and death of Labashi-Marduk. Belshazzar also lacked many of the prerogatives of kingship, most importantly he was not allowed to preside over and officiate the Babylonian New Year's festival, which was the exclusive right of the king himself. 275 Arthur Jeffery, The Book of Daniel, Introduction and Exegesis, in The Interpreters Bible, 6:426. 162-79; and Leupold, pp. Daniel 6:1-6, The administrators who are envious of Daniel tricks Darius to issue a decree prohibiting anyone to worship in the next thirty days or be thrown to the lions den. [58], The Midrash literature enters into the details of Belshazzar's death. For discussion of Josephus account, see Keil, pp. It seems likely that skirmishes along the border were frequent from then until Babylon's fall. For example, in the passage, "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him" (Amos 5:19), the lion is said to represent Nebuchadnezzar, and the bear, equally ferocious if not equally courageous, is Belshazzar. Much has been made of the reference of Belshazzars relationship to Nebuchadnezzar, who is described as his father in verse 2; and even Keil is influenced by this to consider Belshazzar a literal son of Nebuchadnezzar.261 This is not entirely impossible, of course, for as Leupold shows,262 Nabonidus could have married a widow of Nebuchadnezzar who had a son by Nebuchadnezzar who then could be adopted by Nabonidus by way of strengthening his own hold upon the throne. The expression drunk wine before the thousand indicates that Belshazzar was probably on a platform at a higher level than other guests and led them in drinking toasts to their deities. 279 In the end, even the critics accept either the interpretation of Daniel (mene, numbered; tekel, weighed; peres, divided); or the reading, a maneh, a maneh, a shekel, and a half-maneh, see exposition. Knowing Daniel was a wise elder statesman, the new leaders gave him a prestigious place in their government (Daniel 6:1-2). No documents are dated to the "reign of Belshazzar", and no documents mention both Belshazzar and Nabonidus as if there was a formal co-regency. Daniel had not been assembled with the other wise men because he probably was in semiretirement and was no longer chief of the wise men. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain He and all his nobles were slain together, in the midst of their feasting and revelling, as Herodotus, lib. [27][28] During Nabonidus's absence, Belshazzar was put in charge of the administration in Babylonia. B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, pp. Approximately twenty-three years elapsed between chapter 4 and chapter 5. Ezra 6:14-18. For the duration of the decade-long absence of his father, Belshazzar served as regent in Babylon. Although Babylon has been only partially excavated with but a small part of the original city recovered, the system of mounds which mark the city today more or less indicate its boundaries. The reference to father may be construed as grandfather. As Pusey states, Neither in Hebrew, nor in Chaldee, is there any-word for grandfather, grandson. Forefathers are called fathers or fathers fathers. But a single grandfather, or forefather, is never called fathers father but always father only.263, The sacred vessels taken from Jerusalem had apparently been kept in storage without sacrilegious use from Nebuchadnezzars day until the occasion of this feast. 5:10-12 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed. "That two deserters, Gadatas and Gobryas, having assisted some of the Persian army to kill the guards, and seize upon . This, however, is conjecture; and probably it is more natural to consider Belshazzar a son of Nabonidus himself. He's also one of the most well-known Old Testament villains. - Daniel 12:13: 538 BC: Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Judea and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem . On his death Neriglisar, his murderer, succeeded to the throne and reigned four years. This distinction is supported by Keil.265, Their pride in their deities may have been bolstered by the magnificence of the city of Babylon itself, interpreted as an evidence of the power of their gods. 5:17-23 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. Some of these prophecies may have their ultimate fulfillment in the future (Rev 17-18). While the dimensions may be questioned, the magnificence of the city was not seriously exaggerated.267. That means Daniel was 36 years old when Jerusalem and Solomon's temple were destroyed. All of this proved that God was greater than Nebuchadnezzar and held him responsible for his authority. Belshazzar could grant royal privileges identical to those granted by kings. Much as Babylon fell on that sixteenth day of Tishri (Oc. Nabonidus appoints his son, Belshazzar, as his co-regent. 89-93. 246 Eusebius, Praeper. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. . Who succeeded Belshazzar as king of Babylon? Daniel 5:30. His son, Laborosoardoch, a mere boy, occupied it for nine months, when, owing to the depraved disposition which he showed, a conspiracy was formed against him, and he was beaten to death by his friends. The other administrators resented this and thought of ways to bring ruin to Daniel. The battle probably took place much as Herodotus records it.286. Daniel 5:18-21 . Through proclaiming his father as the new king, Belshazzar also made himself the first-in-line to the throne. One can well imagine the tense moment as these ringing words reached every ear in the vast hall in the deathlike silence that greeted Daniels prophetic utterance. Daniel 6:10-15, Darius orders Daniel to be thrown into the lions den and wishes Daniel that he be saved by his God. It was hard for the Babylonians to believe that even the Medes and the Persians who had surrounded their beloved city could possibly breach the fortifications or exhaust their supplies which were intended to be ample for a siege of many years. She had not attended the banquet. 5:13-16 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. A plausible account of Berosus, in his third book, found in a fragment preserved by Josephus summarizes the history between Nebuchadnezzars death in 562 B.C. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). The conspirators appointed Nabonidus, one of their number, who reigned for seventeen years before being defeated by Cyrus the Persian. 9:41, cited by C. F. Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, p. 164. A. Brinkman, Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Archaeological Museum at Florence, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 25:202-9.). - Daniel 5:5-29: Belshazzar is killed when Cyrus of Persia invades Babylon. [35] These include: The events that transpired in Babylonia during Belshazzar's regency are not well known, owing to a lack of surviving sources. The word MENE means numbered, and Daniel interprets this in verse 26 as indicating God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. It is in keeping with the idea that mans days are numbered, and the repetition of the word twice is probably for emphasis. He is considered perhaps the world's foremost interpreter of biblical prophecy.John is perhaps best known for his bestselling work on Bible prophecy, Armageddon More. [50], In the Book of Daniel, Belshazzar (Hebrew: , Blaar)[1] plays a significant role in the tale of Belshazzar's feast, a variation on the story of Nebuchadnezzar's madness showing what happens when a king does not repent. [56], The broad consensus among scholars is that the Book of Daniel was compiled shortly after the Maccabean Revolt in the 160s BC. Here the discussion is lost in a maze of conflicting facts in extrabiblical literature concerning which the critics themselves are not agreed. Nebuchadnezzar died in the year 3364 (397 BCE) and was succeeded by his son Evil [pronounced eh-vil] Merodach whose reign extended for 23 years. For other uses, see, List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources, "Nabonidus, Belshazzar, and the Book of Daniel: an Update", Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belshazzar&oldid=1147589796, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia without a Wikisource reference, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, Wikipedia pending changes protected pages, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages with numeric Bible version references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Belshazzar never assumed, and was not allowed to use, the title of king (. Daniel 7:1-7, Daniel receives a vision of a ram and a goat. The inability of the wise men to decipher the writing only increased the concern of Belshazzar. Having been interpreted to mean divided, it is also understood as a reference to the Aramaic word for Persian, thereby hinting a Persian victory over Babylon. 267 Cf. Belshazzar was not allowed to date documents after his own "regnal years". Q. While in ordinary discourse the lack of vowels could normally be supplied rather easily, in a cryptic statement such as this the addition of vowels is a problem. The storehouses of Babylon were still abundant with food and wine, and there is evidence that there was plenty of both at this feast. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire (Jer 51:57-58). [6] In the story, the conqueror who inherits Babylon is Darius the Mede, but no such individual is known to history, and the invaders were actually Persians. 283 Ibid., p. 126; cf. He was followed by Neriglissar, also spelled Nergal-shar-usur, a son-in-law of Nebuchadnezzar who died in 556 b.c. [5][6] Belshazzar is portrayed as the king of Babylon and "son" of Nebuchadnezzar, though he was actually the son of Nabonidusone of Nebuchadnezzar's successorsand he never became king in his own right, nor did he lead the religious festivals as the king was required to do. Perhaps the full force of his wickedness in using the vessels taken from the temple in Jerusalem had begun to dawn upon him, or the fears suppressed concerning the presence of the armies which surrounded Babylon may have now emerged. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. Still, orders by Nabonidus superseded orders by Belshazzar. Verse 1 of chapter 5 introduces the fact that Belshazzar as king of Babylon had made a great feast to which a thousand of his lords had been invited with their wives. Belshazzar had been known only from the biblical Book of Daniel (chapters 5, 78) and from Xenophons Cyropaedia until 1854, when references to him were found in Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions. The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. In the interpretation of the image in chapter 2, Daniel had predicted to Nebuchadnezzar, After thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee (Dan 2:39). When Nebuchadnezzar's son King Belshazzar uses the vessels from the Jewish temple for his feast, a hand appears and writes a mysterious . Jeremiah is explicit, And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts. 315-16. Later, King Nebuchadnezzar had another dream, and again Daniel was able to interpret it. How old was Belshazzar when Nebuchadnezzar died? The chronology of the three Babylonian kings is given in the Talmud as follows: Nebuchadnezzar reigned forty-five years, Evil-merodach twenty-three, and Belshazzar was monarch of Babylonia for two years, being killed at the beginning of the third year on the fatal night of the fall of Babylon (Meg. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. The solution to the problem which the queen suggested was that they invite Daniel the prophet, who had been discovered as a man of wisdom by Nebuchadnezzar, to interpret the writing. In the Neo-Babylonian Empire, oaths were typically sworn by the king, and several gods, by individuals who were going to conduct various services. 271 F. Rosenthal, A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic, p. 71. Some have denied his historicity The kings name, however, has now appeared upon the cuneiform documents, so that there can be no question as to his historicity. Belshazzar, overcome by sickness, left the palace unobserved during the night through a rear exit. 00:00. The implication in the clause whiles he tasted the wine is that Belshazzar in his right mind probably would not have committed this sacrilegious act. [8] The later authors of the Talmud and the Midrash emphasize the tyrannous oppression of his Jewish subjects, with several passages in the Prophets interpreted as referring to him and his predecessors. And thus Babylon was taken for the first time.285, Keil discusses at length both Herodotus account and that of Xenophon in his Cyropaedia, which is similar, and summarizes the arguments of Kranichfeld discounting these records. Belshazzar was evidently in no mood to bargain but was terrified and desperately desired to know the meaning of the writing. exhibits its remarkable accuracy.249 The controversy over Belshazzar, because of the extensive investigation and great variety of findings, has become one of the most complicated problems in the entire book, but the problem itself is comparatively simple. That means Daniel was 36 years old when Jerusalem and Solomon's temple were destroyed. TEQEL could be considered as representing the Hebrew shekeL PERES could be read as PERAS, or a half-maneh, although this identification is questionable. Belshazzar may have been the son of the king who is said in the same chronicle to have commanded the Babylonian army in Accad from the 6th to the 11th year of Nabunaid I; or, possibly longer, for the annals before the 6th and after the 11th year are broken and for the most part illegible. He knew Daniel and knew the history of Nebuchadnezzars experience with Gods chastening. The Verse Account of Nabonidus states that Nabonidus campaigned in Arabia with the "army of Akkad" (possibly referring to troops of Babylonian origin) whereas Belshazzar was entrusted at home with the "army of all the lands" (possibly referring to troops of foreign origin). Having stationed his forces and given these directions, he himself marched away with the ineffective part of his army; and having come to the lake, Cyrus did the same with respect to the river and the lake as the queen of the Babylonians had done; for having diverted the river, by means of a canal, into the lake, which was before a swamp, he made the ancient channel fordable by the sinking of the river. Home; Blog; Bible survey. [31] These include: Though Belshazzar's authority was thus limited, he also was allowed, and assumed, certain royal responsibilities. Merrill F. Unger, Ungers Bible Dictionary, pp. Belshazzar, son of Nabonidus, was the last king of Babylon during the time of Daniel . Instead, documents from the period in which Belshazzar was regent continued to be dated after the years of Nabonidus's reign. [13], Belshazzar's father was proclaimed as king in May 556 BC,[14] and by the end of June, tablets recognising Nabonidus are known from across Babylonia. The outer wall seems to have been only seventeen miles in circumference, instead of about fifty-six as Herodotus claimed, with much fewer towers and gates; and probably even the towers were not more than 100 feet tall. As Nabonidus assumed the throne in 556 B.C., only six years after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, and Belshazzar was probably at least a teenager when Nebuchadnezzar diedif he was old enough to be coregent with Nabonidus in 553 B.C. it is possible that he was a genuine son of Nebuchadnezzar and that his mother, after Nebuchadnezzars death, was married to Nabonidus. Belshazzar under Nabonidus was considered the second ruler, and the position of a third ruler would be the highest that he could offer. (30-31) The death of Belshazzar and the rise of Darius the Mede. His thin courage, bolstered by wine drunk from vessels which Nebuchadnezzar had plundered and were seemingly a symbol of the power of the gods of Babylon, now deserted him. Daniel does not record his immediate successors, and extrabiblical literature is somewhat confused. All 66 books; Old Testament books; . One possibility, suggested by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, is that Belshazzar was put in charge of Babylonia's defense and was moving with the army along the northern and eastern border. Young in his discussion on this point gives J. Dymeley Prince282 the credit for the suggestion that the maneh refers to Nebuchadnezzar, the shekel (of much less value) to Belshazzar, and the half-minas refers to the Medes and the Persians.283 Daniels explanation, however, is far more cogent and reasonable, and does not give any indication that the words mean other than he indicates. Belshazzar's feast: analysis. 57-59; cf. In vain did he pled that he was the king. Daniel 6:26-27, Daniel prays and fasts about what lies ahead and the Jewish peoples indifference to their captivity. 5:29-31 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. Whereas Neriglissar's career as a businessman prior to becoming king can be followed through a trail of surviving business documents, Belshazzar appears to have become a prominent member of the Babylonian oligarchy overnight[18] (Belshazzar, in contrast to his co-conspirators was notably not a member of the old Babylonian aristocracy),[19] not being mentioned in any business documents or private transactions prior to Nabonidus becoming king. [55] Daniel tells Belshazzar that because he has not given honor to God, his kingdom will be given to the Medes and Persians. [45] Otherwise his status and position after Nabonidus's return is never made clear. This prince, whose government was arbitrary and licentious, fell a victim to a plot, being assassinated by his sisters husband, Neriglisar, after a reign of two years. Daniel spoke in measured tones the condemnation of that which was blasphemous in the sight of the holy God. Babylonian chronicles refer to the crown prince being stationed at home in Babylonia with "his army". The Writing on the Wall . Corrections? He died about 561 and was succeeded by his son Awil-Marduk (Evil-Merodach of 2 Kings). When this took place, the Persians who were appointed to that purpose close to the stream of the river, which had now subsided to about the middle of a mans thigh, entered Babylon by this passage. E. J. He knew for instance that Daniel was of the captivity of Judah and that he was one of the captives which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem. 247 See Raymond P. Dougherty, Nabonidus and Belshazzar.

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