Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God has numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
In Context
25And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
27TEKEL, thou are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
Cross References
Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.
Isaiah 21:1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
Jeremiah 25:11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah 27:7And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.
Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years of which the word of LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:11-30
Daniel Brought before Belshazzar. ( b. c. 538.) 10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy… Read the whole commentary →