Who was Belshazzar?


Daniel 5:1-2 (also Dan 5)

King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.



Critics allege that Belshazzar was never king and was not the son of Nebuchadnezzar; instead, he was the son of Nabonidus, the actual last king of Babylon.

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