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Belshazzar

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Belshazzar

In the Old Testament, the last king of Babylon, son of Nebuchadnezzar. During a feast (known as Belshazzar's Feast) he saw a message, interpreted by Daniel as prophesying the fall of Babylon and death of Belshazzar.

All of this is said to have happened on the same night that the city was invaded by the Medes and Persians (539 BC).

Belshazzar

Oratorio by Handel (words by Charles Jennens), first produced at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London, England, on 27 March 1745.



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But he who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's unchallenged power and dominion of individual influence for the time; that man's royalty of state transcends Belshazzar's, for Belshazzar was not the greatest.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Here, while the national prosperity feasts, like another Belshazzar, on the spectacle of its own magnificence, is the Writing on the Wall, which warns the monarch, Money, that his glory is weighed in the balance, and his power found wanting.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Then the letter that Villefort had showed to him recurred to his mind, and every line gleamed forth in fiery letters on the wall like the mene tekel upharsin of Belshazzar.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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