A Hand Writes on the Palace Wall

5 King Belshazzar gave a huge banquet. He invited a thousand of his nobles to it. He drank wine with them. ² While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to his servants. He commanded them to bring in some gold and silver cups. They were the cups his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem. Belshazzar had them brought in so everyone could drink from them. That included the king himself, his nobles, his wives and his concubines.