The Handwriting on the Wall
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. Dan. 5:2
golden and silver... The banquet itself showed Belshazzar’s contempt for the power of men. Then, to show his contempt for the power of the true God, he ordered that the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar… had taken from the temple in Jerusalem (cf. Dan. 1:1-2) be brought to the banquet hall so the assembled revelers might drink from them. See Dan. 1:2; 2Ki. 25:15; Jer. 52:19.
father Nebuchadnezzar had... His grandfather actually. There is no word in Aramaic for grandfather. The word "father" is often used of ancestors (1Ki. 15:11-13; 2Ki. 14:3; 2Ch. 34:1-2; Rom. 9:10). Jeremiah settles the controversy of this statement by saying, "all nations shall serve him (Nebuchadnezzar), and his son (Nabonidus), and his son’s son (Belshazzar), until the very time of his land come" (Jer. 27:7).
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