Daniel 5:4

New Life Version

They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Hebrew Names Version
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

King James Version
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

English Standard Version
They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

New American Standard Bible
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

New Century Version
As they were drinking, they praised their gods, which were made from gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Amplified Bible
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They drunke wine and praysed the gods of golde, and of siluer, of brasse, of yron, of wood and of stone.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

Berean Standard Bible
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

Complete Jewish Bible
They drank their wine and praised their gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

Darby Translation
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Easy-to-Read Version
As they were drinking, they gave praise to their idol gods, which were only statues made from gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

George Lamsa Translation
They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Good News Translation
and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Lexham English Bible
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

Literal Translation
They drank wine and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, wood, and stone.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They dronke wyne, and praysed their Idols of golde, syluer, copper, yron, wodde and stone.

American Standard Version
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Bible in Basic English
They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

King James Version (1611)
They drunke wine, and praised the gods of gold and of siluer, of brasse, of yron, of wood, and of stone.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They drunke wine, & praysed the gods of golde, siluer, brasse, iron, wood, and stone.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

English Revised Version
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

World English Bible
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei drunken wyn, and herieden her goddis of gold, and of siluer, of bras, and of irun, and of tree, and of stoon.

Update Bible Version
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Webster's Bible Translation
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

New English Translation
As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

New King James Version
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

New Living Translation
While they drank from them they praised their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

New Revised Standard
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
they drank wine, - and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

Revised Standard Version
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Young's Literal Translation
they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Contextual Overview

¹ King Belshazzar gave a special supper for a thousand of his important men, and drank wine with them. ² When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he had all the gold and silver cups brought which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the Lord's house in Jerusalem. The king sent for them so that he and his important men and all his wives could drink from them. ³ So they brought the gold cups that had been taken from the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king and his important men and all his wives drank from them. ⁴ They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone. ⁵ All at once the fingers of a man's hand were seen writing on the wall near the lamp-stand of the king's house. And the king saw the back of the hand as it wrote. ⁶ Then the king's face turned white, and his thoughts turned to fear. His legs became weak and his knees began shaking. ⁷ The king called in a loud voice for the wonder-workers, the men who learned from stars and those who used their secret ways. He said to the wise men of Babylon, "Any man who can read this writing and tell me what it means will be dressed with purple clothing and have a chain of gold around his neck. And he will be the third in power in the nation." ⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant. ⁹ Then King Belshazzar was very afraid. His face lost even more of its color, and his important men did not know what to do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

praised: Daniel 5:23, Daniel 4:37, Judges 16:23, Judges 16:24, Isaiah 42:8, Hosea 2:8-13, Revelation 9:20, Revelation 9:21

of gold: Daniel 3:1-7, Daniel 3:8-18, Psalms 115:4-8, Psalms 135:15-18, Isaiah 40:19, Isaiah 40:20, Isaiah 42:17, Isaiah 46:6, Isaiah 46:7, Jeremiah 10:4-9, Habakkuk 2:19, Acts 17:29, Acts 19:24-28, Revelation 9:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - strange Exodus 20:23 - General Exodus 32:18 - but the 1 Kings 1:49 - General Proverbs 23:33 - and Jeremiah 50:38 - the land Jeremiah 51:41 - the praise Ezekiel 20:32 - to serve Daniel 4:31 - the word Hosea 7:5 - with scorners Amos 6:7 - and the Amos 8:10 - I will turn Habakkuk 1:11 - imputing Malachi 1:12 - The table Luke 6:25 - mourn 1 Corinthians 8:5 - that 1 Thessalonians 5:7 - and they James 5:13 - any merry

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God wanted good to come to them, saying, "Give birth to many. Grow in number. Fill the earth and rule over it. Rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the children of Adam and of their children's children. When God made man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived 130 years, he gave birth to a son in his own likeness. And he gave him the name Seth.

Genesis 5:7
Seth lived 807 years after the birth of Enosh. He had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:10
Enosh lived 815 years after the birth of Kenan. He had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:13
Kenan lived 840 years after the birth of Mahalalel. He had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:19
Jared lived 800 years after the birth of Enoch. He had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked with God 300 years after the birth of Methuselah. He had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:26
Methuselah lived 782 years after the birth of Lamech. He had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:30
Lamech lived 595 years after the birth of Noah. He had other sons and daughters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They drunk wine,.... That is, out of the vessels of the temple at Jerusalem, and perhaps till they were drunk:

and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone; for they had gods of all these materials;

:-, and these they praised by offering sacrifices unto them; or rather by singing songs, and drinking healths, and by ascribing all their victories over the nations of the world to them; as that by their means they had got such large dominions, and such great wealth and treasures, and particularly these vessels of gold and silver; and so insulted and triumphed over the God of Israel, and defied the prophecies and promises of the deliverance of them that went under his name.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, ... - Compare the note at Daniel 5:1. Idols were made among the pagan of all the materials here mentioned. The word praised here means that they spake in praise of these gods; of their history, of their attributes, of what they had done. Nothing can well be conceived more senseless and stupid than what it is said they did at this feast, and yet it is a fair illustration of what occurs in all the festivals of idolatry. And is what occurs in more civilized Christian lands, in the scenes of carousal and festivity, more rational than this? It was not much worse to lavish praises on idol gods in a scene of revelry than it is to lavish praises on idol men now; not much less rational to “toast” gods than it is to “toast” men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 5:4. And praised the gods of gold — They had gods of all sorts, and of all metals; with wooden gods, and stone gods, beside!