Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. Dan. 5:30
In that night... The night of the drunken feast and the handwriting on the wall (Dan. 5:1, 5:30).
king of the... Xenophon says he was slain by two lords, Gadatas and Gobrias, who joined Cyrus to avenge themselves of certain wrongs which Belshazzar had done them.
That very night the fulfillment came, and Belshazzar was killed. Babylon fell to Cyrus.
Jeremiah 50:24 "I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD."
An ancient account alleged that Persia’s General Ugbaru had troops dig a trench to divert and thus lower the waters of the Euphrates River. Since the river flowed through the city of Babylon, the lowered water enabled besiegers to unexpectedly invade via the waterway under the thick walls and reach the palace before the city was aware. The end then came quickly, as guards, Belshazzar and others were slain (on Oct. 16, 539 B.C.).
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