: and my shape returned to me: and my nobles, and
my magistrates, sought for me, and I was restored to my kingdom: and
greater majesty was added to me.

4:34. Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and
glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways
judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase.

I, Nabuchodonosor, do now, etc... From this place some commentators
infer that this king became a true convert, and dying not long after,
was probably saved.

Daniel Chapter 5

Baltasar's profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting
on the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets.

5:1. Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his
nobles: and every one drank according to his age.

Baltasar... He is believed to be the same as Nabonydus, the last of the
Chaldean kings, grandson to Nabuchodonosor. He is called his son, ver.
2, 11, etc., according to the style of the scriptures, because he was a
descendant from him.

5:2. And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the
vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had
brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and
his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them.

5:3. Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had
brought away out of the temple that was in Jeursalem: and the king and
his nobles, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.

5:4. They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of
brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

5:5. In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of
a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the
wall of the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand
that wrote.

5:6. Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled
him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one
against the other.

5:7. And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the
Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise
men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known
to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and
shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my
kingdom.

5:8. Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read
the writing, nor declare the interpre