339 : Basic English : Daniel 5,6; 1 Peter 3 ) 1. Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.
2. Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.
3. Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.
4. They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.
5. In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.
; AB church Lausanne )
