Q&A for Daniel 5

Chapter
Question/Answer 1
Question 1

1. Where had the gold and silver vessels used in the feast come from?

Answer 1

v 2  Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them. 

Question/Answer 2
Question 2

2. Why did the king call for Daniel?

Answer 2

v 8 to 11 Then all the king’s wise men ... could not read the writing ... The queen spoke and said ...  “ There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him ...

Question/Answer 3
Question 3

3. What is Daniel’s accusation against king Belshazzar?

Answer 3

v 22 and 23 “You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.