43 results ( Located in the same paragraph Located in the same sentence Located in the same paragraph Located in the same article ). Sorted by most occurrences Sorted by most occurrences Sorted by date, newest first Sorted by date, oldest first Search restricted to: Watchtower. Jehovah Rewards Faith and Courage (32 occurrences) In the preceding article, we saw how this was true of incidents recorded in the first six chapters of the book of Daniel 1-6. w88 12/1 pp. 15-20 - The Watchtower—1988 Not Remaining Silent on the World’s Doom (19 occurrences) In Da chapter 5 we read the prophetic drama of Belshazzar’s feast. w51 9/1 pp. 537-542 - The Watchtower—1951 A Proud Regent Loses an Empire (18 occurrences) Before the night was over, “Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed and Darius the Mede himself received the kingdom.”—Daniel 5:1, 6, 30, 31. ... Daniel refers to Nebuchadnezzar as the father of Belshazzar. (Daniel 5:2, 11, 18, 22) w98 9/15 pp. 8-9 - The Watchtower—1998 Gaining Maturity Through Personal Study Is Joyful (16 occurrences) The onslaught of the Median and Persian armies came in through the open doors of the city, ransacked and seized control of it. (Daniel 5) w66 7/1 pp. 392-398 - The Watchtower—1966 Pinning the Blame on the One Responsible (16 occurrences) In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain and Darius the Mede took the kingdom. (Daniel chapter 5, AS) w52 4/1 pp. 201-207 - The Watchtower—1952 Jehovah—The God of Times and Seasons (9 occurrences) Daniel chapter 5 relates that Belshazzar made a big feast for a thousand of his officials. w86 4/15 pp. 10-15 - The Watchtower—1986 God Arranges to Deliver Mankind (8 occurrences) —Based on Genesis, chapters 22-50, as well as Exodus, Deuteronomy, 2 Samuel, Psalms, Isaiah, Daniel, Micah, Zechariah 9:9. w13 10/1 p. 5 - The Watchtower—2013 “The Ancient of Days Sat Down” (8 occurrences) Daniel 4-12–Hosea 1-14 w12 10/1 p. 18 - The Watchtower—2012 Do You Need to Learn Hebrew and Greek? (8 occurrences) Examples of this are found at Ezra 4:8 to 6:18 and 7:12-26, Jeremiah 10:11, and Daniel 2:4b to 7:28. w09 11/1 pp. 20-23 - The Watchtower—2009 Do You Allow God to Speak to You Every Day? (8 occurrences) / 5-7 □ w09 8/1 pp. 13-18 - The Watchtower—2009 Highlights From the Book of Daniel (8 occurrences) (Daniel 1:1–6:28) w07 9/1 pp. 17-20 - The Watchtower—2007 Highlights From the Book of Ezra (8 occurrences) Other parts of the Bible written in this ancient Semitic language are Ezra 7:12-26, Jeremiah 10:11, and Daniel 2:4b–7:28. w06 1/15 pp. 17-20 - The Watchtower—2006 A Rich and Happy Life of Willing Sacrifice (8 occurrences) Once when Brother Gustave Zopfer, who at the time supervised the work of Jehovah’s Witnesses in France, visited our congregation, Father organized a choir and a costumed Bible drama based on King Belshazzar’s feast and the handwriting on the wall. (Daniel 5:1-31) w04 9/1 pp. 19-25 - The Watchtower—2004 Elderly Ones—Valuable Members of Our Christian Brotherhood (8 occurrences) Daniel was probably in his 90’s when Belshazzar summoned him to interpret the mysterious handwriting on the wall. (Daniel, chapter 5) w04 5/15 pp. 10-15 - The Watchtower—2004 Pay Attention to God’s Prophetic Word for Our Day (8 occurrences) Daniel chapter 5 shows that Belshazzar was ruling as king in Babylon when that city was overthrown in 539 B.C.E. w00 5/15 pp. 10-14 - The Watchtower—2000 How Reliable Are Bible Predictions? (8 occurrences) On that very night, God’s prophet Daniel warned Babylon’s ruler of impending disaster. (Daniel, chapter 5) w93 5/15 pp. 4-7 - The Watchtower—1993 The Handwriting on the Wall—Do You See It? (8 occurrences) Whoever can interpret this writing will be showered with honors.—Daniel 5:5-7. w86 11/15 pp. 3-4 - The Watchtower—1986 Daniel’s Prophecy—Dreams That Affect You (8 occurrences) Another short-range prophecy in the book of Daniel is provided by the miraculous handwriting on the wall of the banquet hall where Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson Belshazzar and his princes were feasting. (Daniel, chapter 5) w86 10/1 pp. 3-4 - The Watchtower—1986 Kingdom Ministers Meet the Challenge (8 occurrences) Then, with Babylon’s fall that very night, the king and apparently the other banqueters extolling false gods were slain by the invading conquerers. (Daniel, chapter 5) w85 9/1 pp. 16-21 - The Watchtower—1985 A Pleasure-Loving World About to End! (8 occurrences) And let it be noted that the city fell on a night of pleasure-filled feasting.—Compare Daniel, chapter 5. w83 7/1 pp. 6-7 - The Watchtower—1983 Bringing the Holy Place into Right Condition (8 occurrences) This Empire, which grew to greater size than that of Babylon, eastward and westward and southward, continued its world domination from 539 to 331 B.C.E. (Dan. 5:1–6:28; 11:1, 2) w71 12/1 pp. 711-717 - The Watchtower—1971 The Book of Truthful Historical Dates (8 occurrences) 12. What absolute date do we have in connection with the overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus? 12 One such fixed or absolute date is in connection with the events recorded in the fifth chapter of Daniel, verses one to thirty-one. w68 8/15 pp. 488-494 - The Watchtower—1968 Do Evil Spirits Exercise Power over Man? (8 occurrences) Astrology not only fails those who rely on it, but it is one of the ways evil spirits mislead mankind.—Dan. 5:1-31. w65 10/1 pp. 579-583 - The Watchtower—1965 Four Words That Changed World Empire (8 occurrences) At that time, as regards the king, his very complexion was changed in him, and his own thoughts began to frighten him, and his hip joints were loosening and his very knees were knocking each other.”—Dan. 5:5, 6. w65 4/1 pp. 214-218 - The Watchtower—1965 Part Two (8 occurrences) However, down to Sheol you will be brought, to the remotest parts of the pit.”—Isa. 14:3-15; Dan. 5:1-31. w63 12/1 pp. 719-727 - The Watchtower—1963 Part 22—“Your Will Be Done on Earth” (8 occurrences) They contain Daniel 3:27 to 6:18 and Da 7:1 to 8:27. w59 9/15 pp. 570-574 - The Watchtower—1959 Part 13—“Your Will Be Done on Earth” (8 occurrences) The Bible itself mentions two others in that dynasty, namely, Evil-meródach and Belshazzar. (2 Ki. 25:27; Jer. 52:31; Dan. 5:1-30, RS) w59 5/1 pp. 280-284 - The Watchtower—1959 The Crucial Time for Staying Awake (8 occurrences) 11 We do not want to be Babylonish like the world of mankind, celebrating a Belshazzar’s feast and carousing carelessly and depending upon the military establishment of this world and misusing the things of Jehovah God and blaspheming him, doing all this on the very night of doom, when the miraculous handwriting has appeared on the wall and the miraculous interpretation has been given. (Dan. 5:1-30) w58 12/15 pp. 751-759 - The Watchtower—1958 The Defense That Wins (8 occurrences) Yet in the dark of night while the infamous Belshazzar was blasphemously toasting demon gods with utensils stolen from Jehovah’s temple of worship, the drunken city was surprised and sacked by the Medes and Persians.—Daniel chapter 5. w52 8/15 pp. 483-484 - The Watchtower—1952 Who Can Interpret Prophecy? (5 occurrences) Only Daniel—the aging prophet of Jehovah God, who had a reputation for “the untying of knots”—proved to be the one who could interpret the prophetic message. (Daniel 5:12) ... That prophecy, foretelling the doom of the Babylonian Empire, was fulfilled that very night!—Daniel 5:1, 4-8, 25-30. w11 12/1 pp. 11-13 - The Watchtower—2011 Questions From Readers (4 occurrences) But the party was abruptly interrupted when a superhuman hand wrote strange things on the wall.—Daniel 5:1-5. ... The wise men and astrologers of Babylon were unable to interpret the writing, even though Belshazzar promised to give a gold necklace and governmental prominence to anyone who could read and explain the strange handwriting.—Daniel 5:7-9. w88 10/1 p. 30 - The Watchtower—1988 Trust in Jehovah—Not in “a Conspiracy!” (4 occurrences) And it wrote upon the wall the fateful words “MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN.” (Daniel 5:1, 5, 25) ... Daniel was recommended by the queen mother as being a man of wisdom—a man who was able to decipher things and to interpret them. (Daniel 5:10-12) w87 9/1 pp. 23-29 - The Watchtower—1987 When Jehovah Taught Monarchs Lessons (3 occurrences) Then his mother reminded him that Daniel, who had interpreted dreams for Nebuchadnezzar, would be able to interpret the handwriting. (Daniel 5:10-12) w88 12/1 pp. 10-14 - The Watchtower—1988 Execution of the “Great Harlot” Nears (2 occurrences) “At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand came forth and were writing . . . upon the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was beholding the back of the hand that was writing.” (Dan. 5:5) ... Belshazzar became so terrified at this sight that “his very knees were knocking each other.” (Dan. 5:6) w80 10/15 pp. 17-23 - The Watchtower—1980 Take Courage!—The Millennium Is at Hand (2 occurrences) Also, at the time of Belshazzar’s idolatrous feasting, when handwriting from Jehovah appeared on the wall of the king’s palace, Daniel was required to be very courageous in informing the king and his grandees that great Babylon was finished and would be given to Medo-Persia. (Dan. 5:1-6, 17-28) w79 10/15 pp. 18-23 - The Watchtower—1979 Is Astrology for Christians? (2 occurrences) “That night Belshazzar, the king of Chaldea, was slain.” (Dan. 5:7, 8, 26, 30, AT) w60 7/1 pp. 393-396 - The Watchtower—1960 Scripture Index for Texts Explained, 1951 (2 occurrences) 5:6 538 ... 5:9 538 w51 12/15 pp. 766-767 - The Watchtower—1951 Prove Yourself Trustworthy (1 occurrence) Many years later, Daniel again proved to be trustworthy when he accurately interpreted a mysterious message that appeared on the palace wall in Babylon. (Dan. 5:5, 25-29) w22 September pp. 8-13 - The Watchtower (Study)—2022 Christian Neutrality as God’s War Approaches (1 occurrence) And all the nations must serve even him and his son [Evil-merodach] and his grandson [Belshazzar] until the time even of his own land comes, and many nations and great kings must exploit him as a servant.”—Jer. 27:5-7; 2 Ki. 25:27; Dan. 5:1, 11, 18, 22. w79 11/1 pp. 16-22 - The Watchtower—1979 Questions From Readers (1 occurrence) Likewise the Babylonian queen referred to Nebuchadnezzar as the father of Belshazzar, when Nabonidus was evidently his father and Nebuchadnezzar his grandfather. (Dan. 5:11) w70 9/1 pp. 543-544 - The Watchtower—1970 12
In the preceding article, we saw how this was true of incidents recorded in the first six chapters of the book of Daniel 1-6.
Before the night was over, “Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed and Darius the Mede himself received the kingdom.”—Daniel 5:1, 6, 30, 31. ... Daniel refers to Nebuchadnezzar as the father of Belshazzar. (Daniel 5:2, 11, 18, 22)
The onslaught of the Median and Persian armies came in through the open doors of the city, ransacked and seized control of it. (Daniel 5)
In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain and Darius the Mede took the kingdom. (Daniel chapter 5, AS)
—Based on Genesis, chapters 22-50, as well as Exodus, Deuteronomy, 2 Samuel, Psalms, Isaiah, Daniel, Micah, Zechariah 9:9.
Other parts of the Bible written in this ancient Semitic language are Ezra 7:12-26, Jeremiah 10:11, and Daniel 2:4b–7:28.
Once when Brother Gustave Zopfer, who at the time supervised the work of Jehovah’s Witnesses in France, visited our congregation, Father organized a choir and a costumed Bible drama based on King Belshazzar’s feast and the handwriting on the wall. (Daniel 5:1-31)
Daniel was probably in his 90’s when Belshazzar summoned him to interpret the mysterious handwriting on the wall. (Daniel, chapter 5)
Daniel chapter 5 shows that Belshazzar was ruling as king in Babylon when that city was overthrown in 539 B.C.E.
On that very night, God’s prophet Daniel warned Babylon’s ruler of impending disaster. (Daniel, chapter 5)
Another short-range prophecy in the book of Daniel is provided by the miraculous handwriting on the wall of the banquet hall where Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson Belshazzar and his princes were feasting. (Daniel, chapter 5)
Then, with Babylon’s fall that very night, the king and apparently the other banqueters extolling false gods were slain by the invading conquerers. (Daniel, chapter 5)
And let it be noted that the city fell on a night of pleasure-filled feasting.—Compare Daniel, chapter 5.
This Empire, which grew to greater size than that of Babylon, eastward and westward and southward, continued its world domination from 539 to 331 B.C.E. (Dan. 5:1–6:28; 11:1, 2)
12. What absolute date do we have in connection with the overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus? 12 One such fixed or absolute date is in connection with the events recorded in the fifth chapter of Daniel, verses one to thirty-one.
Astrology not only fails those who rely on it, but it is one of the ways evil spirits mislead mankind.—Dan. 5:1-31.
At that time, as regards the king, his very complexion was changed in him, and his own thoughts began to frighten him, and his hip joints were loosening and his very knees were knocking each other.”—Dan. 5:5, 6.
However, down to Sheol you will be brought, to the remotest parts of the pit.”—Isa. 14:3-15; Dan. 5:1-31.
The Bible itself mentions two others in that dynasty, namely, Evil-meródach and Belshazzar. (2 Ki. 25:27; Jer. 52:31; Dan. 5:1-30, RS)
11 We do not want to be Babylonish like the world of mankind, celebrating a Belshazzar’s feast and carousing carelessly and depending upon the military establishment of this world and misusing the things of Jehovah God and blaspheming him, doing all this on the very night of doom, when the miraculous handwriting has appeared on the wall and the miraculous interpretation has been given. (Dan. 5:1-30)
Yet in the dark of night while the infamous Belshazzar was blasphemously toasting demon gods with utensils stolen from Jehovah’s temple of worship, the drunken city was surprised and sacked by the Medes and Persians.—Daniel chapter 5.
Only Daniel—the aging prophet of Jehovah God, who had a reputation for “the untying of knots”—proved to be the one who could interpret the prophetic message. (Daniel 5:12) ... That prophecy, foretelling the doom of the Babylonian Empire, was fulfilled that very night!—Daniel 5:1, 4-8, 25-30.
But the party was abruptly interrupted when a superhuman hand wrote strange things on the wall.—Daniel 5:1-5. ... The wise men and astrologers of Babylon were unable to interpret the writing, even though Belshazzar promised to give a gold necklace and governmental prominence to anyone who could read and explain the strange handwriting.—Daniel 5:7-9.
And it wrote upon the wall the fateful words “MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN.” (Daniel 5:1, 5, 25) ... Daniel was recommended by the queen mother as being a man of wisdom—a man who was able to decipher things and to interpret them. (Daniel 5:10-12)
Then his mother reminded him that Daniel, who had interpreted dreams for Nebuchadnezzar, would be able to interpret the handwriting. (Daniel 5:10-12)
“At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand came forth and were writing . . . upon the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was beholding the back of the hand that was writing.” (Dan. 5:5) ... Belshazzar became so terrified at this sight that “his very knees were knocking each other.” (Dan. 5:6)
Also, at the time of Belshazzar’s idolatrous feasting, when handwriting from Jehovah appeared on the wall of the king’s palace, Daniel was required to be very courageous in informing the king and his grandees that great Babylon was finished and would be given to Medo-Persia. (Dan. 5:1-6, 17-28)
Many years later, Daniel again proved to be trustworthy when he accurately interpreted a mysterious message that appeared on the palace wall in Babylon. (Dan. 5:5, 25-29)
And all the nations must serve even him and his son [Evil-merodach] and his grandson [Belshazzar] until the time even of his own land comes, and many nations and great kings must exploit him as a servant.”—Jer. 27:5-7; 2 Ki. 25:27; Dan. 5:1, 11, 18, 22.
Likewise the Babylonian queen referred to Nebuchadnezzar as the father of Belshazzar, when Nabonidus was evidently his father and Nebuchadnezzar his grandfather. (Dan. 5:11)