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

So the keeper regularly took away their meat and the wine which was to have been their drink, and gave them grain.

Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.