Daniel 5 · Verse 30

Daniel 5:30

In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Daniel 5:30, King James Version

Daniel 5:30 in other translations

BSBThat very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
WEBIn that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
ASVIn that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
YLTIn that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
DARBYIn that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
BBEThat very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
WebsterIn that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

What does Daniel 5:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
30. Herodotus and Xenophon confirm Daniel as to the suddenness of the event. Cyrus diverted the Euphrates into a new channel and, guided by two deserters, marched by the dry bed into the city, while the Babylonians were carousing at an annual feast to the gods. See also Is 21:5; 44:27; Jr 50:38, 39; 51:36. As to Belshazzar's being slain, compare Is 14:18-20; 21:2-9; Jr 50:29-35; 51:57.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 30 In that night was Belshazzar - slain - Xenophon says, he was dispatched by two lords, Gadatas and Gobrias, who went over to Cyrus, to avenge themselves of certain wrongs which Belshazzar had done them. We have already seen that Cyrus entered the city by the bed of the Euphrates, which he had emptied, by cutting a channel for the waters, and directing them into the marshy country.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 5:18-31

Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but they will be judged by One to whom all things are open. Daniel reads the sentence written on the wall. All this may well be applied to the doom of every sinner. At death, the sinner's days are numbered and finished; after death…

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Daniel 5:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בֵּ֚הּbehon it
בְּלֵ֣ילְיָ֔אbe.Lei.le.Ya'on night theH3916
קְטִ֕ילke.Tilhe was killedH6992
בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֖רbe.le.sha.TzarBelshazzarH1113
מַלְכָּ֥אmal.Ka'king theH4430
כַשְׂדָּאָֽה\׃\ \פkhas.da.ya'Chaldeans theH3779

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Daniel 5:30

  • Jeremiah 51:31

    One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

  • Jeremiah 51:39

    In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 51:57

    And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

  • Isaiah 21:4-9

    My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: …

  • Isaiah 47:9

    But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

  • Daniel 5:1-2

    Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 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.

  • Jeremiah 51:11

    Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1,2; Isa 21:4-9; 47:9; Jer 51:11,31,39,57

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Context

  • Daniel 5:29

    Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

  • Daniel 5:30

    In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

  • Daniel 5:31

    And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

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Daniel 5:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		La misma noche fué muerto Belsasar, rey de los Caldeos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		En cette nuit-là, Belshatsar, roi des Chaldéens, fut tué.
German
Elberfelder 1871		In derselben Nacht wurde Belsazar, der König der Chaldäer, getötet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Eadem nocte interfectus est Baltassar rex Chaldæus.