Daniel 5:2

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Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from it.

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Babylon was the capital of the Babylonian Empire in Mesopotamia, where Belshazzar held his feast; Chaldea refers to the surrounding Babylonian region and its ruling people. Jerusalem was Judah’s holy city, from whose temple the vessels had been taken, making their use at the feast a deliberate profanation of what God had consecrated.

Places in this passage

Daniel 5:2 mentions Babylon, Chaldea and Jerusalem.

Photo of Babylon — Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky

Photo of Chaldea — Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.

Photo of Jerusalem — Jerusalem · Godot13