“Through with a Sword”

K. Douglas Bassett

(Isa. 24:19)

This became literally true. Nabonadius, the last king of Babylonia, fled to Borsippa, after having been defeated in battle by Cyrus, and left his son, Belshazzar, in Babylon to look after the affairs of state. The young prince was surprised by the invaders, in the midst of revelry, and slain in the confusion, at the gate of his magnificent palace, “thrust through with a sword”; whereupon Nabonadius, his father, crushed in body and spirit by his losses, surrendered to the conqueror.

(George Reynolds and Janne M. Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, ed. Philip C. Reynolds, 7 vols. [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1955–1961], 1:367.)

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