BElshazzar the king] Daniel reciteth this history of King Belshazzar Evilmerodachs sonne, to shew Gods judgements against the wicked, for the deliverance of his Church, and how the prophecie of Jeremie was true, that they should be delivered after seventy yeers. drank wine] This word signifies a solemn drinking, in a publique feast, which they say was used among the Chaldeans. before the thousand] The Kings of the East parts then used to it alone commonly, and disdained that any should sit in their company: and now to shew his power, and how little he set by his enemy, which then besieged Babylon, he made a solemne banquet, and used excesse in their company, which is meant here by drinking wine: Thus the wicked are most dissolute and negligent when their destruction is at hand.