Daniel 5:1
Good News Translation
One night King Belshazzar invited a thousand noblemen to a great banquet, and they drank wine together.

New Revised Standard Version
King Belshazzar made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.

Contemporary English Version
One evening, King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his highest officials, and he drank wine with them.

New American Bible
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, with whom he drank.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.

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Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.

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Genesis 40:20 The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made a great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief butler, and the chief baker.

Esther 1:3 Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his sight,

Isaiah 21:4,5 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me. . . .

Isaiah 22:12,14 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: . . .

Jeremiah 51:39,57 In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord. . . .

Nahum 1:10 For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.

Mark 6:21,22 And when a convenient day was come, Herod made a supper for his birthday, for the princes, and tribunes, and chief men of Galilee. . . .

Context
Belshazzar's Impious Feast
1Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.2And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them.…
Cross References
Esther 1:3
Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his sight,

Isaiah 21:5
Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

Isaiah 22:12
And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Jeremiah 50:35
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

Daniel 5:30
The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.

Daniel 4:37
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