Daniel 5:24

"but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways."

Key Reflection

This passage from Daniel 5:24-25 portrays Belshazzar's pride and idolatry, lifting himself up against the true Lord of heaven while desecrating sacred vessels from God’s temple. By praising false gods made of inanimate materials, he ignored the one true God who sustains all life and controls every path.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Then was the part of the hand sent from him -To wit, the fingers. SeeDaniel 5:5. The sense is, that when it was fully perceived that Belshazzar was not disposed to learn that there was a God in heaven; when he refused to profit by the solemn dispensations which had occurred in respect to his predecessor; when his own heart was lifted up with pride, and when he had gone even farther than his predecessors had done by the sacrilegious use of the vessels of the temple, thus showing special contempt for the God of heaven, then appeared the mysterious handwriting on the wall.

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