³ He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred who were concubines,^(A) and they turned his heart away.^(B)

² Under the influence of^[a] the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels^(A) that his predecessor^[b] Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines could drink from them.