have been alive at this time. This woman also spoke to Belshazzar as a mother might be expected to speak to her son (Daniel 5:11, 12). Concisely stated, Belshazzar’s mother entered the banquet hall to comfort and encourage her son. She pointedly told him to collect himself and realize that there was someone who could help him with his problem. She injected the fact that Belshazzar’s father (there was no Aramaic word for grandfather), Nebuchadnezzar, had been assisted with a similar problem by a man