What Does Daniel 5:3 Mean in the King James?
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The desecration is that what is set apart in God’s house becomes an instrument of royal appetite and display.
THE MEANING
The vessels are taken from God’s house and made part of a royal drinking feast. The verse speaks now wherever power treats what is set apart as material for its own pleasure.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that taking something into your possession changes what it belongs to and what it is for.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשְׁלֶם
Yerushlem
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Wholeness, completeness; the name’s -shalem element carries this sense.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushlem. The vessels are taken from God’s house in Yerushlem, whose name carries the root of wholeness. Their new use at the feast does not erase the sacred belonging the verse names.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness
שָׁלוֹם
It brings out the wholeness carried in the name of the place from which the vessels are taken.
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
It echoes the name’s sense of wholeness, set against the vessels’ removal from their sacred place.
THE PATTERN
A thing’s sacred belonging is exposed when it is put to another master’s use.
But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.THE THREAD
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.Daniel’s feast places the vessels of God’s house in hands drinking wine while praising other gods. This verse names the fracture in that act: the Lord’s table and a rival table cannot be treated as one shared allegiance.
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