Verse Lens · Context pointer
Daniel 5:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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Role in This Section
Daniel 5:1 opens this movement with “Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine…”.
Read It With
- Daniel 5:1–4
Read Daniel 5:1 with 5:1–4. Daniel 5:1 opens this movement with “Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Belshazzar's banquet turns Jerusalem's vessels into drinking cups while the court praises manufactured gods.
Why It Needs Context
Daniel 5:1 depends on 5:1–4; isolated teaching would detach “Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine…” from “Feast and Profanation of Temple Vessels.”
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Daniel 5:1-4 — Feast and Profanation of Temple VesselsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Daniel 5:1-4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew aramaic text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Daniel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew-Aramaic wording, morphology, language boundary, names, repeated roots, clauses, and lexical controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Dan.xml, 5:1-4; Hebrew 1:1–2:4a and 8:1–12:13, Aramaic 2:4b–7:28
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