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.