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

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale(C) and he was so frightened(D) that his legs became weak(E) and his knees were knocking.(F)

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

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30 That very night Belshazzar,(A) king(B) of the Babylonians,[a] was slain,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans

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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11 For this is what Amos is saying:

“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
    and Israel will surely go into exile,(A)
    away from their native land.’”(B)

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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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17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute(A) in the city,
    and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
    and you yourself will die in a pagan[a] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,(B)
    away from their native land.(C)’”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean