Daniel 5:9
5:9 Then King Belshazzar was very terrified, and he was visibly shaken. 1 His nobles were completely dumbfounded.
Daniel 5:30
5:30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, 2 was killed. 3
1 tn Aram “his visage altered upon him.” So also in v. 10.
2 tn Aram “king of the Chaldeans.”
3 sn The year was 539 B.C. At this time Daniel would have been approximately eighty-one years old. The relevant extra-biblical records describing the fall of Babylon include portions of Herodotus, Xenophon, Berossus (cited in Josephus), the Cyrus Cylinder, and the Babylonian Chronicle.