And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
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Gill's Exposition
And thou his son, O Belshazzar,.... His grandson; See Gill on Dan 5:1,
hast not humbled thine heart; so as to acknowledge the most high God, and his dependence on him; to own him as his Sovereign,…
Barnes' Notes
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart ... - As thou shouldst have done in remembrance of these events. The idea is, that we ought to derive valuable lessons from what has taken…
Adam Clarke
Hast not humbled thine heart - These judgments and mercies have had no good effect upon thee.
Here is, I. The information given to the king, by the queen-mother, concerning Daniel, how fit he was to be consulted in this difficult case. It is supposed that this queen was the widow of…
But Belshazzar, in spite of the warning afforded by Nebuchadnezzar's fate, has sinned still more deeply, and by wanton sacrilege has deliberately defied the God of heaven.
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