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Belshazzar orders the vessels from Jerusalem brought to the feast.
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Daniel 5:2

The sacred vessels demanded

The writing on the wall · Daniel 5

Story guide: Belshazzar orders the gold and silver vessels from Jerusalem brought to the feast.

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2Belshazzar gave the order, as he tasted the wine, to bring the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

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