² As Belshazzar ·was drinking his wine [^Ltasted the wine; ^Che was under the influence of the wine], he gave orders to bring the gold and silver cups that his ·ancestor Nebuchadnezzar [^Lfather; predecessor; ^Cnot his literal father; v. 1] had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem [1:2]. This was so the king, his ·royal [noble; important] guests, his wives, and his ·slave women [^Lconcubines; ^Csecondary wives] could drink from those cups.