4As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.


In Context

1 King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.

2 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.

3 So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.

4 As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.

6 His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way.

Daniel 5:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:4They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.