1. Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and each one of them drank according to his age.
2. And so, when they were drunk, he instructed that the vessels of gold and silver should be brought, which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had carried away from the temple, which was in Jerusalem, so that the king, and his nobles, and his wives, and the concubines, might drink from them.