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Daniel 5:1
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KJ21
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
ASV
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
AMP
Belshazzar the king [who was a descendant of Nebuchadnezzar] gave a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking his wine in the presence of the thousand [guests].
AMPC
Belshazzar the king [descendant of Nebuchadnezzar] made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and he drank his wine in the presence of the thousand.
BRG
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
CSB
King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.
CSBA
King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.
CEB
King Belshazzar threw a huge party for a thousand of his princes, and he drank a lot of wine in front of them.
CJB
Belshatzar the king gave a great banquet for a thousand of his lords, and in the presence of the thousand he was drinking wine.
CEV
One evening, King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his highest officials, and he drank wine with them.
DARBY
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.
DRA
Baltasar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.
ERV
King Belshazzar gave a big party for 1000 of his officials. The king was drinking wine with them.
EASY
King Belshazzar gave a big party for 1,000 important people in his country. He drank wine with all of them.
EHV
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and in front of the thousand he drank wine.
ESV
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
ESVUK
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
EXB
King Belshazzar [C along with his father, Nabonidus, the last ruler of Babylon] ·gave a big banquet [L served a large meal] for a thousand ·royal [noble; important] guests and drank wine with ·them [L the thousand].
GNV
5 Belshazzar king of Babylon seeth an handwriting on the wall. 8 The soothsayers called of the king, cannot expound the writing.  25 Daniel readeth it, and interpreteth it also. 30 The king is slain. 31 Darius enjoyeth the kingdom. King Belshazzar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes, and drank wine before the thousand.
GW
King Belshazzar threw a large banquet for 1,000 nobles and drank wine with them.
GNT
One night King Belshazzar invited a thousand noblemen to a great banquet, and they drank wine together.
HCSB
King Belshazzar held a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.
ICB
King Belshazzar gave a big banquet for 1,000 royal guests. And he drank wine with them.
ISV
King Belshazzar put on a great festival for a thousand of his officials. He joined all one thousand of them in getting drunk.
JUB
¶ Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.
KJV
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
AKJV
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
LSB
Belshazzar the king held a great feast for one thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
LEB
Belshazzar the king made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and in the presence of the thousand lords he was drinking wine.
TLB
Belshazzar the king invited a thousand of his officers to a great feast where the wine flowed freely.
MSG
King Belshazzar held a great feast for his one thousand nobles. The wine flowed freely. Belshazzar, heady with the wine, ordered that the gold and silver chalices his father Nebuchadnezzar had stolen from God’s Temple of Jerusalem be brought in so that he and his nobles, his wives and concubines, could drink from them. When the gold and silver chalices were brought in, the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, drank wine from them. They drank the wine and drunkenly praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
MEV
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand.
NOG
King Belshazzar threw a large banquet for 1,000 nobles and drank wine with them.
NABRE
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, with whom he drank.
NASB
Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
NASB1995
Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
NCB
King Belshazzar hosted a magnificent banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in their presence.
NCV
King Belshazzar gave a big banquet for a thousand royal guests and drank wine with them.
NET
King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for 1,000 of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.
NIRV
King Belshazzar gave a huge banquet. He invited a thousand of his nobles to it. He drank wine with them.
NIV
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.
NIVUK
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.
NKJV
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.
NLV
King Belshazzar gave a special supper for a thousand of his important men, and drank wine with them.
NLT
Many years later King Belshazzar gave a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
NRSVA
King Belshazzar made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
NRSVACE
King Belshazzar made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
NRSVCE
King Belshazzar made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
NRSVUE
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
OJB
Belshatzar the king made a mishteh gadol (great feast) to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.
RGT
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his princes and drank wine before the thousand.
RSV
King Belshaz′zar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in front of the thousand.
RSVCE
King Belshaz′zar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in front of the thousand.
TLV
King Belshazzar held a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles and was drinking wine in front of the thousand.
VOICE
A few decades later, the king, Belshazzar, held a state banquet and invited a thousand of his officials. As he was tasting the wine, he ordered servants to bring in the gold and silver vessels his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar had stolen from the temple in Jerusalem many years earlier. He wanted his officials to join him, his wives, and his concubines in drinking a royal toast from them.
WEB
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
WYC
(Years later,) Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast to his best men a thousand, and each man drank after his age. (Years later, King Belshazzar had a great feast for a thousand of his best men, and they all drank together.)
YLT
Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine;
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