...affected the world less than the taking of Babylon by Cyrus. All that is said of it in the Scripture is, " In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldaeans slain, and Darius the Median took the kingdom." (Daniel v. 31.) It was no destruction upon the city. It was the quiet occupation of the throne of Babylon...

...until God wrote up in his banquet-hall, " Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting ;" and in that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, slain. A good and joyful thing it is, to turn from • these dark chronicles to those fail• examples of...

...will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation." Sad was the result ; " in that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldaeans slain," and we perhaps behold the traces of this night of destruction in the alabaster slabs which decorate our...

...the wall announcing that the sovereignty was taken from him and given to the Medes and Persians. " In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans,...slain. And Darius, the Median, took the kingdom." (Dan. v. 30.) The Medes were a people who for some centuries previous to Nebuchadnezzar had ruled over...

...received him with joy. III. The account in Daniel, after describing Belshazzar's feast, says only : " In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldaeans slain, and Darius the Mede took the kingdom." All attempts to identify this Darius have been thus far futile. The recently...

...his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans slain; and Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. F. JEALOUSY OF DANIEL THE JEW APPEARS...