OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 5:6

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Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

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Verse 6. Loosed, so that he quaked for fear. Ezekiel 29:7. Calmet.—He was not so drunk as to be deprived of sense. Bible.—This happened in the 17th and last year of his reign, when Daniel was about a hundred years old, ( Worthington.) though we have no certain account of his age. Bible.—He might be eighty-two when he died. Calmet.

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