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[Daniel Ch.5: Belshazzar's Riotous Feast] III.
Abrupt End to the Feast (5:30-31)
DAN
5:30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans
slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and
two years old.
Time and again, God had foretold the fall of Babylon to Persia. But
Babylon, with its double walls, was virtually impregnable. The city was
also provisioned to be self-sufficient for a 20-year siege. The Persian
King Cyrus used an unconventional method of attack: the diversion of the
Euphrates River, which flowed under Babylon. And the Persian soldiers
sneaked up from the dried riverbed into the city. The Babylonians were
caught by surprise. That very night of the riotous feast, Babylon fell on October 13, 539 B.C. Its riotous king was slain.
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