Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,This shows yet again that faith is not inherited. One generation doesn't naturally absorb the beliefs of their parents. Each generation must be taught, but still makes its own choice about who and what they believe.
Belshazzar may or may not have been young enough to have been taught about God as a child. Maybe he was older, and away when the key events of this book occurred. However, whether that's true or not, Nebuchadnezzar had a responsibility to teach and persuade, and apparently failed that charge like so many others.
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