1. King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, with whom he drank.
2. Under the influence of the wine, he ordered the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, to be brought in so that the king, his nobles, his consorts, and his concubines might drink from them.
3. When the gold vessels taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, had been brought in, and while the king, his nobles, his consorts, and his concubines were drinking
4. wine from them, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.