Belshazzar
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the
golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had
taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the
king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might
drink therein....
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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a
dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the
dream, [and] told the sum of the matters....
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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his
lords, and drank wine before the thousand....
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(or Balthazar; Akkadian Bel-sarra-usur) was a prince of
Babylon, the son of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon
according to the Book of Daniel. Like his father, it is
believed by many scholars that he was an Assyrian. In the Book
of Daniel (chapters 5 and 8) of the Jewish Tanakh or Christian
Old Testament, Belshazzar is the King of Babylon be...
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bel-shaz'-ar (belsha'tstsar; Baltasar, Babylonian Bel-shar-
usur): According to Dan 5:30, he was the Chaldean king under
whom Babylon was taken by Darius the Mede. The Babylonian
monuments speak a number of times of a Bel-shar-usur who was
the "firstborn son, the offspring of the heart of" Nabunaid,
the last king of the Babylonian empire, that ...
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(prince of Bel), the last king of Babylon. In Da 5:2
Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar. This, of
course, need only mean grandfather or ancestor. According to
the well-known narrative Belshazzar gave a splendid feast in
his palace during the siege of Babylon (B.C. 538), using the
sacred vessels of the temple, which Nebuchadnezze...
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Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon
(Dan.
5:1). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who
was the
daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the widow of Nergal-
sharezer.
When still young he made a great feast to a thousand
of his
lords, and when heated with wine sent for the sacred
vessels his
"father" (Dan. 5:2), or grandfath...
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Contracted from Belsharezar: from Bel, the Babylonian idol,
and shar, a "king"; zar is a common Babylonian termination,
as in Nebuchadnez-zar. His solemnly instructive history is
graphically told in Daniel 5. See BABEL; BABYLON, for the
remarkable confirmation of the Scripture account of his
death on the night of revelry in the siege of Babylo...
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