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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 5 – Belshazzar’s Feast
time. The queen who came in and made

known to the king that there was such a

person to whom appeal could be made for

knowledge in supernatural things, is

supposed to have been the queen mother, the

daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, in whose

memory the wonderful part Daniel had acted

in her father’s reign would still be fresh and

vivid. Nebuchadnezzar is here called

Belshazzar’s father, according to the then

common custom of calling any paternal

ancestor, father, and any male descendant,

son. Nebuchadnezzar was in reality his

grandfather. The king inquired of Daniel when

he came in, if he was of the children of the

captivity of Judah. Thus it seems to have been

ordered, that while they were holding impious

revelry in honor of their false gods, a servant

of the true God, and one whom they were