Im Rausch ließ Belsazar die
goldenen und silbernen Gefäße holen, die sein Vater Nebukadnezar aus dem Tempel in Jerusalem geraubt hatte. Alle sollten daraus trinken: er selbst, seine Gäste, seine Frauen und Nebenfrauen.
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.