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I hope all will end better than the poor Balthazar, lol.



Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669)
Belshazzar's Feast (1633-1634)
Oil on canvas
168 x 209 cm
National Gallery, London.

In biblical texts Belshazzar was the last Babylonian king, his name is associated with the fall of Babylon (Daniel, V, 1-30). Despite the siege of the capital taken by Cyrus, king and all the inhabitants, having at his wealth of products that could blithely indulge in the pleasures of life. On the occasion of a minor holiday Balthazar arranged magnificent feast, which was invited to thousands of nobles and courtiers.

desktop bowls were precious vessels, selected Babylonian invaders at different subjugated peoples, among others, and expensive vessels from the Temple in Jerusalem. In this case, according to the custom of the ancient pagans celebrated Babylonian The gods that have proved victorious earlier and therefore will be victorious, and now, despite all the efforts of Cyrus and his secret allies, the Jews, with their Jehovah. But here, in the midst of the feast on the wall of apparent human hand and slowly began to write some words.

seeing her, "the king changed his face, his thoughts were tangled, communication of his loins loosed, and his knees in terror smote one of the other. "Called to the sages were unable to read and explain the title. Then, on the advice of the queen, called the aged prophet Daniel, who more than once, even when Nebuchadnezzar, showed extraordinary wisdom, and he really read the inscription, which in Aramaic briefly stated: "Mene, Tekel, uparsin. It meant: "Mene - God numbered thy kingdom and finished it; TEKEL - Thou art weighed and found wanting; uparsin - Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. "" In the same night - continues the biblical narrative, - Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans slain "(Daniel, V, 1930).

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