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Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform: Bēl-šar-uṣur, [1] [2] meaning "Bel, protect the king"; [3] Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר Bēlšaʾṣṣar) was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus (r. 556 – 539 BC), the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Through his mother, he might have been a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar II (r.
John Martin, Belshazzar's Feast, 1821, half-size sketch held by the Yale Center for British Art. Belshazzar's feast, or the story of the writing on the wall, chapter 5 in the Book of Daniel, tells how Neo-Babylonian royal Belshazzar holds a great feast and drinks from the vessels that had been looted in the destruction of the First Temple. A ...
The four are chosen for their intellect and beauty to be trained in the Babylonian court, and are given new names. Daniel is given the Babylonian name Belteshazzar (Akkadian: 𒊩𒆪𒈗𒋀, romanized: Beltu-šar-uṣur, written as NIN 9.LUGAL.ŠEŠ), while his companions are given the Babylonian names Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Daniel ...
Belshazzar, king of Babylon, holds a great feast, during which a hand appears and writes on the wall: "MENA, MENA, TEKAL, and PERSIN" (מנא מנא תקל ופרסין ). Daniel interprets the words: Belshazzar has been weighed and found wanting, and his kingdom is to be divided between the Medes and Persians. The story concludes: "That ...
Belshazzar's Feast is a major painting by Rembrandt now in the National Gallery, London. [1] The painting is Rembrandt's attempt to establish himself as a painter of large, baroque history paintings. [2] [3] The date of the painting is unknown, but most sources give a date between 1635 and 1638. [4] [1]
Belshazzar’s Feast (Belsazars gästabud), a play from 1906 by the Swedish-speaking Finnish writer Hjalmar Procopé, based on the feast. [10] [29] Belshazzar is a 1930 novel by H. Rider Haggard. In it, the Egyptian Ramose's sister is sent as a gift to Belshazzar, and the feast is part of the plot. [30]
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for a time, and his thoughts troubled him. So the king spoke, and said, "Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation trouble you." Belteshazzar answered and said, "My lord, may the dream concern those who hate you, and its interpretation concern your enemies!" [17]
Among these young men were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, who were given new names (Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah became Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, while Daniel's Babylonian name was Belteshazzar) and allocated rations of food and wine. But Daniel resolved not to defile himself, and refused the royal food and wine, thriving instead ...