1. King Belshazzar threw a large banquet for 1,000 nobles and drank wine with them.
2. As they were tasting the wine, Belshazzar ordered that the gold and silver utensils which his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem be brought to him. He wanted to drink from them with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
3. So the servants brought the gold utensils that had been taken from God’s temple in Jerusalem. The king, his nobles, wives, and concubines drank from them.
4. They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, or stone.