...drank out of the vessels of the house of the Lord, and saw the hand writing on the wall, in the same night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain, and Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and...

...cut thee off from the earth, and to give thy kingdom into the hands of the Medes and Persians. V. 30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And, accordingly, that very night, Belshazzar the king was slainby the hands of Gadata and Gobrya, two of...

...drank out of the vessels of the house of the Lord, and saw the hand-writing on the wall, in that same night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain, and Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. 1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and...

...know ; and the God in whose hands thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified" "In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain ; and Darius the Median took the kingdom." Thus terminated the independence of this mighty empire. Isaiah, Avho predicted its ruin, considers...

...; and the God in whose hands thy Ireath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified" " In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain ; and Darius the Median took the kingdom." Thus terminated the independence of this mighty empire. Isaiah, who predicted its ruin, considers the...

...balances, and art found wanting. — PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. " In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain, and Darius the Median took the kingdom." The coincidence is very striking. dies which are paid monthly to the Persian monarch, the whole of...

...of the theft, with the certainty that his identity as an escaped forçat wiH be discovered, and ho will be again consigned to the hulks. We think that...seems smiling and secure. Such was the state of the Roman empire when the throne of the Cœsars was undermined by luxury and vice. The apparent prosperity...

...and the prophet of the Lord declared to him, that God had numbered his kingdom, and finished it : and in that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans,...slain ; and Darius, the Median, took the kingdom. — Dan. vi. Chapters 1. and li. of Jeremiah relate the fall of Babylon, but it is not possible to...

...and the prophet of the Lord declared to him, that God had numbered his kingdom, and finished it : and in that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain ; and Darius, the Median, look the kingdom.— Dan. vi. Chapters 1. and li. of Jeremiah relate the fall of Babylon, but it is...

...4th. , " deserved, comes the fulfilment of the hand- writing's awful denunciation: For ( v. 30,31. ) " in that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old." But it was not only by the hand writing on the wall, that...