Thematic Bible: Like the sin of belshazzar it may be done under the influence of strong drink
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As for teqel -- you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.
King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all. 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.