Lux Domini
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

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Interpretation

Belshazzar bade defiance to the judgments of God. Most historians consider that Cyrus then besieged Babylon.

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This thought runs through Daniel 5:5-9.

Glossary

Candlestick Object
The lamp-stand, “candelabrum,” which Moses was commanded to make for the tabernacle, according to the pattern shown him. Its form is described in Ex.