Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.

King James Version

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Holman Bible

King Belshazzar held a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.

International Standard Version

King Belshazzar put on a great festival for a thousand of his officials. He joined all one thousand of them in getting drunk.

A Conservative Version

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

American Standard Version

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Amplified

Belshazzar the king [who was a descendant of Nebuchadnezzar] gave a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking his wine in the presence of the thousand [guests].

Bible in Basic English

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

Darby Translation

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.

Julia Smith Translation

Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine.

King James 2000

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Belshazzar the king made a great festival for thousand [of] his lords, and {in the presence of} the thousand [lords] he was drinking wine.

Modern King James verseion

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

King Belshazzar made a great banquet to his thousand lords: with all these thousand he made great cheer,

NET Bible

King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.

New Heart English Bible

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

The Emphasized Bible

Belshazzar the king, made a great feast, to a thousand of his nobles, - and, before the thousand, was drinking, wine.

Webster

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

World English Bible

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Youngs Literal Translation

Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּלשׁאצּר 
Belsha'tstsar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

the king
מלך 
melek (Aramaic) 
Usage: 180

עבד 
`abad (Aramaic) 
do, made, cut, do , do , worketh, executed , goeth, kept, moved, wrought
Usage: 28

a great
רב 
Rab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 15

לחם 
L@chem (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

to a thousand
אלף אלף 
'alaph (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

of his lords
רברבן 
Rabr@ban (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

and drank
שׁתה 
Sh@thah (Aramaic) 
to drink
Usage: 5

חמר 
Chamar (Aramaic), 
Usage: 6

קבל קבל 
Q@bel (Aramaic) 
Usage: 29

References

Context Readings

The Mysterious Writing On The Wall

1 Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

Cross References

Esther 1:3

in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;

Isaiah 22:14

The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Genesis 40:20

On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

Isaiah 21:4-5

My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

Jeremiah 51:39

While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Nahum 1:10

For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

Mark 6:21-22

But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

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