Daniel 5:26
And this is the interpretation of the words. MANE: God has numbered your kingdom and has finished it.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
In Context
25But this is the writing that has been decreed: MANE, THECEL, PHARES.
27THECEL: you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking.
Cross References
Job 14:14Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs.
Isaiah 21:1The burden of the desert of the sea. Just as the whirlwinds approach from Africa, it approaches from the desert, from a terrible land.
Jeremiah 25:11And this entire land will be in desolation and in stupor. And all these nations will serve the king of Babylon, for seventy years.
Jeremiah 27:7And all the nations will serve him, and his son, and his son’s son. Many nations and great kings will serve him, until the time arrives for him and his land.
Daniel 9:2in year one of his reign, I, Daniel, understood in the books the number of the years, concerning the word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah, the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would be completed in 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 →