How to Pronounce Belshazzar

What does Belshazzar mean?

Belshazzar means “master of the treasure”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Who was Belshazzar?

Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon (Dan. 5:1). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who was the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the widow of Nergal-sharezer. When still young he made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and when heated with wine sent for the sacred vessels his “father” (Dan. 5:2), or grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from the temple in Jerusalem, and he and his princes drank out of them. In the midst of their mad revelry a hand was seen by the king tracing on the wall the announcement of God’s judgment, which that night fell upon him.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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