Belshazzar's feast
Belshazzar's feast the feast made by Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar and the last king of Babylonia, at which his doom was foretold by the writing of Chancery, interpreted by Daniel. Belshazzar was killed in the sack of Babylon by Cyrus in 538 bc.
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