Daniel 5:5

In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand came forth, and wrote opposite the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

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In The King James Version

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

In Context

4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

6Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him. And the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

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Cross References

Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

Proverbs 29:1He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Daniel 4:31While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice from heaven fell, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee.

Daniel 5:8Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

Daniel 5:24Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

Colossians 2:14having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:2-10

Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. ( b. c. 538.) 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God… Read the whole commentary →

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