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Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform: Bēl-šar-uṣur,
meaning "Bel,
protect the king"; Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר Bēlšaʾṣṣar) was the son and
crown prince of Nabonidus...
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Belshazzar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Belshazzar was a
Babylonian leader.
Belshazzar may also
refer to:
Belshazzar (Handel), Handel's...
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Belshazzar's feast, or the
story of the
writing on the wall,
chapter 5 in the Book of Daniel,
tells how Neo-Babylonian
royal Belshazzar holds a great...
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Belshazzar's Feast is a
story in the book of Daniel.
Belshazzar's Feast may also
refer to:
Belshazzar's Feast (Rembrandt), a
painting by
Rembrandt Belshazzar's...
- For long periods, he
would entrust rule to his son and
crown prince Belshazzar,
whose poor
performance as a
politician lost him the
support of the priesthood...
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Belshazzar's Feast is a
major painting by
Rembrandt now in the
National Gallery, London. The
painting is Rembrandt's
attempt to
establish himself as a...
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Belshazzar (6th
century BC), son of the last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire, Nabonidus, has
inspired many
works of art and
cultural allusions, often...
- the Mede is
mentioned in the Book of
Daniel as King of
Babylon between Belshazzar and
Cyrus the Great, but he is not
known to
secular history and there...
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Belshazzar (HWV 61) is an
oratorio by
George Frideric Handel. The
libretto was by
Charles Jennens, and
Handel abridged it considerably. Jennens' libretto...
- of Labashi-Marduk (r. 556 BC) in a plot
likely led by Nabonidus's son
Belshazzar.
Throughout his reign,
inscriptions and
later sources suggest that Nabonidus...