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They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.(A)

The Writing on the Wall

Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the wall of the royal palace, next to the lampstand. The king was watching the hand as it wrote.(B) Then the king’s face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.(C)

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30 That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.(A)

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11 For thus Amos has said,

‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
    and Israel must go into exile
    away from his land.’ ”(A)

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17 Therefore thus says the Lord:
Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city,
    and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
    and your land shall be parceled out by line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
    and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”(A)

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