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 Bel·shaz·zar /bɛlˈʃæzɚ/
 伯沙撒王

 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)

 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.

 Belshazzar, master of the treasure