The Writing Is on the Wall: "...your kingdom is given to the Medes and Persians"
The Bible depicts Belshazzar as an arrogant ruler. He ordered the sacred Temple vessels to be brought to his palace for a gala banquet, and he profaned them by using them as common drinking cups, toasting and praising his pagan gods. At the banquet, Daniel relates in Chapter 5 verses 5 and 6:
Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king’s face darkened, and his thoughts alarmed him; the joints of his loins were loosened and his knees knocked together.
The writing was on the wall for Belshazzar.
Daniel interpreted the cryptic message for him:
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
G-d has numbered your days, you have been weighed and found wanting, your kingdom will be divided and given to the Medes and the Persians
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In the Bible
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them…
Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace.
"בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ לְחֶ֣ם רַ֔ב לְרַבְרְבָנ֖וֹהִי אֲלַ֑ף וְלָֽקֳבֵ֥ל אַלְפָּ֖א חַמְרָ֥א שָׁתֵֽה ... בַּהּ־שַֽׁעֲתָ֗ה נפקו נְפַ֨קָה֙ אֶצְבְּעָן֙ דִּ֣י יַד־אֱנָ֔שׁ וְכָֽתְבָן֙ לָֽקֳבֵ֣ל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔א עַל־גִּירָ֕א דִּֽי־כְתַ֥ל הֵֽיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א ..."
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