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Daniel 5:4
They drank wine, and praised thegods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:4 · Darby Bible
Daniel 5:4 in other translations
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
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In context
1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.
2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink in them.
3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, drank in them.
4 They drank wine, and praised thegods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
7 The king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
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