Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
WEB
That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
YLT
In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
DBT
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2