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• And if we remind ourselves of the events of the previous lesson on the Babylonian Empire, that in the reign of king Belshazzar of Babylon, part of a man’s hand appeared on the wall, and wrote the fate of the Babylonian Empire, that it would be destroyed by the Medes and the Persians that very night. As we read in Daniel chapter 5:
• Dan. 5:1   Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.