Daniel 5:27
Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
26This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.
28Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.
Cross References
Job 31:6(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
Ezekiel 22:18Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;
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 →