# Daniel 5:4

> As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

— Daniel 5:4, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 539 BC (counted from the text)
- Date source: Daniel 5 tells of the night, not the year. The Cyrus Cylinder and the Nabonidus Chronicle date the fall of Babylon to October 539 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Belshazzar**, king of Babylon, 553-539 BC · Source: The Nabonidus Chronicle and the tablets that name Belshazzar as son and co-regent. The co-regency explains why, in Daniel 5:7 and 5:29, the reward is *third* place in the kingdom and not second.
- **Cyrus the Great**, king of Persia, 559-530 BC · Source: Cyrus Cylinder (British Museum), which records the policy of sending peoples and their cults back to their own lands; Herodotus I

## See also

- Daniel 5:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5/23
- Habakkuk 2:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/habakkuk/2/19
- Psalms 135:15-18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/135/15
- Revelation 9:20-21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/revelation/9/20
- Psalms 115:4-8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/115/4
- Isaiah 40:19-20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/40/19
- Isaiah 42:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/42/8
- Isaiah 46:6-7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/46/6

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5/4
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).