History tells us that after seven years of madness King Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom was restored back to him.
King Nebuchadnezzar then prayed a most beautiful prayer repenting of his pride and acknowledging God as the “King of Heaven.”
His son, King Belshazzar, was not as fortunate as his father for after knowing his father's fate, he commanded the golden vessels be taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; so that he, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, would drink wine in them. That very same night the hand of God appeared and wrote on the wall:
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN which was interpreted:
MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
That very same night King Belshazzar was removed from his throne and killed, King Darius the Median took the kingdom of Babylon.
