Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return
Belshazzar
King of Babylon · 555–538 BC
The Years
- Began 555 BC
- “and by the prophet Daniel, Belshasar, al. Baltazar, who reigned 17 years”
- Ended 538 BC
- “In the same night, that this banquet was made, was Belshasar the king of the Chaldeans slain”
The last king of Babylon. Ussher takes him for the king the Chaldean writers call Nabonidus, Evilmerodach’s son.
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
