Studies in Daniel Unit 3

Handwriting on the wall

During Belshazzar’s feast, a hand wrote on the wall terrifying all who were present

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin

God has numbered your kingdom and finished it - Belshazzar, God has numbered your kingdom and finished it - Nabonidus, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting, your kingdom shall be divided and given to the Medes and Persians

Temple vessels

Belshazzar used the vessels from the temple in Jerusalem to drink wine from during his feast

Nabonidus Cylinder

Contain Nabonidus’s prayers to Shamash and sin, calls Belshazzar his first born son

Verse Account of Nabonidus

Nabonidus entrusted kingship to his firstborn son, giving him troops

Nanna/Sin

The moon god

Cyrus Cylinder

Claims Cyrus entered the city without fighting or battle, returned the inhabitants to their homes

Day of Atonement

Just before Belshazzar’s feast, the judgement

Nabonitus Chronicle

Nabonitus went to Teyma for ten years