O king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom... This reference to Nebuchadnezzar is evidently designed to sh…

The most high God.—Compare this and the three following verses with Daniel 4:16-17; Daniel 4:22–25.

Before Daniel recites the writing and adds its interpretation, he explains to King Belshazzar the origin of this prodigy. He did not begin the read…

O you king
"Hear" ^F20, O king; so Aben Ezra supplies it; what he was about to say first, in order to prep…

Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with go…