Daniel 5:2

2 Mientras Belsasar bebía, mandó traer las copas de oro y plata que su antecesor,
Nabucodonosor, había sacado del templo de Jerusalén. Quería beber en ellas con sus nobles, sus esposas y sus concubinas.

Daniel 5:2 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 5:2

Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine
As he was drinking his cups, and delighted with the taste of the wine, and got merry with it: or, "by the advice of the wine" ^F8, as Aben Ezra and Jarchi interpret it, by a personification; as if that dictated to him, and put him upon doing what follows; and which often puts both foolish and wicked things into the heads of men, and upon doing them: then he commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels, which his father
Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem;
what these vessels were, and the number of them, we learn from the delivery of them afterwards to the prince of Judah by Cyrus, ( Ezra 1:9-11 ) , these were put into the temple of Bel by Nebuchadnezzar, ( Daniel 1:2 ) and from thence they were now ordered to be brought to the king's palace, and to the apartment where he and his nobles were drinking: that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might
drink therein;
Saadiah says, this day the seventy years' captivity ended; and so, in contempt of the promise and prophecy of it, he ordered the vessels to be brought out and drank in, to show that in vain the Jews expected redemption from it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (armx Mejb) "vino dictante", Tigurine version.

Daniel 5:2 In-Context

1 La escritura en la pared
Muchos años después, el rey Belsasar ofreció un gran banquete a mil de sus nobles y bebió vino con ellos.

2 Mientras Belsasar bebía, mandó traer las copas de oro y plata que su antecesor,
Nabucodonosor, había sacado del templo de Jerusalén. Quería beber en ellas con sus nobles, sus esposas y sus concubinas.

3 Así que trajeron las copas de oro sacadas del templo —la casa de Dios en Jerusalén— y el rey y sus nobles, sus esposas y sus concubinas bebieron en ellas.

4 Mientras bebían en las copas, rindieron culto a sus ídolos de oro, plata, bronce, hierro, madera y piedra.

5 De pronto, vieron los dedos de una mano humana que escribía sobre la pared blanqueada del palacio del rey, cerca del candelabro. El propio rey vio la mano mientras escribía