Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Daniel 5:30 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 30. 30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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Quick Meaning
Daniel 5:30 develops this movement with “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”.
Read It With
- Daniel 5:29–31
Read Daniel 5:30 with 5:29–31. Daniel 5:30 develops this movement with “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Belshazzar honors Daniel as promised, dies that night, and the narrative passes the kingdom to the historically disputed Darius the Mede.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The compressed ending makes royal reward irrelevant to survival and stresses that a kingdom is received rather than ultimately possessed. “Honor and Immediate Regime Transition” opens that larger movement. This completes the present movement before the next larger development: Chapter 6 places Daniel under Darius, whose administrative decree will trap him. Within that movement: Daniel 5:30 develops this movement with “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”.
Follow the Context
- Belshazzar honors Daniel as promised, dies that night, and the narrative passes the kingdom to the historically disputed Darius the Mede.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”
In plain language: This wording develops this movement.
Belshazzar honors Daniel as promised, dies that night, and the narrative passes the kingdom to the historically disputed Darius the Mede. Daniel 5:30 develops this movement with “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”.
Why it matters: This wording carries a material lexical, historical, theological, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Daniel 5:30 does not stand alone from Daniel 5:29–31. Daniel 5:30 does not establish a modern identification, date, guarantee, or command by itself. Its verse-specific role is: develops this movement with “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”.
What Remains True
Titles and rewards can arrive at the very moment the system granting them collapses. Daniel 5:29-31 keeps that truth tied to this claim: Belshazzar honors Daniel as promised, dies that night, and the narrative passes the kingdom to the historically disputed Darius the Mede. In this unit: Daniel 5:30 develops this movement with “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”.
How It Can Shape Life
- Do not confuse proximity to power with durable security, and state historical uncertainty when records do not support a neat identification. In Daniel 5:29-31, respond specifically to this movement: Belshazzar honors Daniel as promised, dies that night, and the narrative passes the kingdom to the historically disputed Darius the Mede. For Daniel 5:30 specifically, keep this reviewed contribution in view: develops this movement with “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”. Read it inside 5:29–31; do not convert its wording into an unsupported modern identification.
Teach It Back
Explain Daniel 5:30's role in 5:29–31. Name the ancient setting, quote or paraphrase “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”, state one material uncertainty, and name one conclusion the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Daniel 5:29-31 — Honor and Immediate Regime TransitionSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Daniel 5:30 must be read with this unit-level uncertainty: Darius has been identified with several known figures, understood as a title, or treated as a literary-historical error. The package calls the identification uncertain and refuses false harmonization.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Daniel 5:29-31, 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, 5:29-31; Hebrew 1:1–2:4a and 8:1–12:13, Aramaic 2:4b–7:28
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Daniel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew-Aramaic, textual, historical, translation, chronology, angelic-language, and duration notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Daniel PDF, printed pp. 1653–1655, translation and translator notes on 5:29-31
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