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Bel·shaz·zar
/bɛlˈʃæzɚ/
伯沙撒王
From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
Belshazzar
n
: (
Old
Testament
)
Babylonian
general
and
son
of
Nebuchadnezzar
II
;
according
to
the
Old
Testament
he
was
warned
of
his
doom
by
divine
handwriting
on
the
wall
that
was
interpreted
by
Daniel
(6th
century
BC
)
From:
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Belshazzar
Bel
protect
the
king
!,
the
last
of
the
kings
of
Babylon
(
Dan
.
5:1).
He
was
the
son
of
Nabonidus
by
Nitocris
,
who
was
the
daughter
of
Nebuchadnezzar
and
the
widow
of
Nergal-sharezer
.
When
still
young
he
made
a
great
feast
to
a
thousand
of
his
lords
,
and
when
heated
with
wine
sent
for
the
sacred
vessels
his
"
father
" (
Dan
. 5:2),
or
grandfather
,
Nebuchadnezzar
had
carried
away
from
the
temple
in
Jerusalem
,
and
he
and
his
princes
drank
out
of
them
.
In
the
midst
of
their
mad
revelry
a
hand
was
seen
by
the
king
tracing
on
the
wall
the
announcement
of
God's
judgment
,
which
that
night
fell
upon
him
.
At
the
instance
of
the
queen
(i.e.,
his
mother
)
Daniel
was
brought
in
,
and
he
interpreted
the
writing
.
That
night
the
kingdom
of
the
Chaldeans
came
to
an
end
,
and
the
king
was
slain
(
Dan
. 5:30). (
See
NERGAL-
SHAREZER
.)
The
absence
of
the
name
of
Belshazzar
on
the
monuments
was
long
regarded
as
an
argument
against
the
genuineness
of
the
Book
of
Daniel
.
In
1854
Sir
Henry
Rawlinson
found
an
inscription
of
Nabonidus
which
referred
to
his
eldest
son
.
Quite
recently
,
however
,
the
side
of
a
ravine
undermined
by
heavy
rains
fell
at
Hillah
,
a
suburb
of
Babylon
.
A
number
of
huge
,
coarse
earthenware
vases
were
laid
bare
.
These
were
filled
with
tablets
,
the
receipts
and
contracts
of
a
firm
of
Babylonian
bankers
,
which
showed
that
Belshazzar
had
a
household
,
with
secretaries
and
stewards
.
One
was
dated
in
the
third
year
of
the
king
Marduk-sar-uzur
.
As
Marduk-sar-uzar
was
another
name
for
Baal
,
this
Marduk-sar-uzur
was
found
to
be
the
Belshazzar
of
Scripture
.
In
one
of
these
contract
tablets
,
dated
in
the
July
after
the
defeat
of
the
army
of
Nabonidus
,
we
find
him
paying
tithes
for
his
sister
to
the
temple
of
the
sun-god
at
Sippara
.
From:
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)
Belshazzar
,
master
of
the
treasure
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