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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 5 – Belshazzar’s Feast
That this festival had some reference to

former victories over the Jews may be

inferred from the fact that the king, when he

began to be heated with his wine, called for

the sacred vessels which had been taken from

Jerusalem. It would be most likely that, lost to

a sense of all sacred things, he would use them

to celebrate the victory by which they were

obtained. No other king, probably, had carried

his impiety to such a height as this. And while

they drank wine from vessels dedicated to the

true God, they praised their gods of gold,

silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone. Perhaps,

as noticed on chapter 3:29, they celebrated

the superior power of their gods over the God

of the Jews, from whose vessels they now

drank to their heathen deities.