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• Belshazzar deposed and killed after using sacred cups for party

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - One of the Bible’s best-known stories, that of King Belshazzar’s terror from the “handwriting on the wall,” is an example of the importance of teaching young people about God, ministers say.

The Revs. Mario Martinez, Bill Hutto and Steve White say Belshazzar was overthrown and killed by Persians in 539 B.C. in part because he had used sacred cups in a drunken party ...

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