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According to the Old Testament he was warned of his doom by divine handwriting on the wall that was interpreted by Daniel (6th century BC)
Answer for the clue "According to the Old Testament he was warned of his doom by divine handwriting on the wall that was interpreted by Daniel (6th century BC) ", 10 letters:
belshazzar
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
last Chaldean king of Babylon (Dan. v), from Hebrew Belshatztzar , a contraction of Akkadian Bel-shar-usur , literally "Bel-protect-the-king" (see Bel ).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Belshazzar was a Babylonian leader. Belshazzar may also refer to: Belshazzar (Handel) , Handel's oratorio Belshazzar (novel) , novel by H. Rider Haggard Belshazzar (unit) , bottle size
Usage examples of belshazzar.
Far off in the blue distance, heat-hazed so that it appeared to be a dreamy mirage on the horizon, was the city of Belshazzar the Great, its thick stone walls overleaped by its many ziggurats and palatial towers.
Belshazzar was flanked by Nubian giants whose black bodies gleamed like polished ebony.
When her plight was explained to him, Belshazzar granted her the right to marry or not as she wished, with a nifty bit of stage business involving a cylinder seal rolled over a clay tablet, shown in tight close-up (Imarte interrupted her lecture long enough to remark approvingly on its verisimilitude).
That old Babylonian, Belshazzar, had nothing on us moderns after all, did he?
Then the letter that Villefort had showed to him recurred to his mind, and every line gleamed forth in fiery letters on the wall like the mene tekel upharsin of Belshazzar.