^{1 Ref} Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

^{2 Ref} Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.