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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 5 – Belshazzar’s Feast
The scene here so briefly mentioned is

described in remarks on chapter 2, verse 39.

While Belshazzar was indulging in his

presumptuous revelry, while the angel’s hand

was tracing the doom of the empire on the

walls of the palace, while Daniel was making

known the fearful import of the heavenly

writing, the Persian soldiery, through the

emptied channel of the Euphrates, had made

their way into the heart of the city, and were

speeding forward with drawn swords to the

palace of the king. Scarcely can it be said that

they surprised him, for God had just

forewarned him of his doom. But they found

him and slew him; and with him the empire of

Babylon ceased to be.

As a fitting conclusion to this chapter, we give

the following beautiful poetic description of