Trouvé 2623 Résultats pour: King David
Now turn we to king Baltassar, that made great cheer for courtiers of his a thousand, each man drinking wine as his rank entitled him.✻ (Daniel 5, 1)
And he, in his cups, would have the spoils of the old temple at Jerusalem brought in, cups of gold, cups of silver that his father Nabuchodonosor had carried away; king and court, wife and concubine should drink from them. (Daniel 5, 2)
Brought in they were, all the spoils of Jerusalem; king and courtier, wife and concubine, drank from those vessels; (Daniel 5, 3)
Then, in that hour, an apparition came to them. They saw the fingers of a man’s hand writing on the plaster of the palace wall, full in the lamp’s light; joints of a hand that wrote there the king could not choose but see. (Daniel 5, 5)
But when they came into the banqueting-hall, never a wise head among them could read the characters, nor tell the king what they meant; (Daniel 5, 8)
whereupon king Baltassar was in a great taking of fear, his cheeks paler yet, and his princes were no easier in mind than himself. (Daniel 5, 9)
But now all this ado brought the queen-mother down into the banqueting-hall; Long life to the king’s grace! cried she; here is no need for daunted hearts and pale looks! (Daniel 5, 10)
One man thou hast in thy realm the holy gods inspire; in thy father’s time, good proof he gave of the wisdom and learning that were his. Did not thy father, king Nabuchodonosor, put him at the head of his wise men one and all, sage nor wizard nor astrologer nor soothsayer to match him? In such renown thy royal father held him, my lord king; (Daniel 5, 11)
So Daniel was brought into the king’s presence, and the king asked him if Daniel he were, one of the Jewish exiles his father had brought to Babylon? (Daniel 5, 13)
But Daniel spoke out, there in the king’s presence: Purple and gold keep for thyself; and for thy honours, let him have them who will. But for the writing, I will read it willingly, and tell thee the meaning of it. (Daniel 5, 17)
Sir king, thy father was Nabuchodonosor; to him the most High gave royal state, and splendid renown; (Daniel 5, 18)
But that same night Baltassar, the Chaldaean king, was slain, (Daniel 5, 30)
