Daniel 5:26
And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 is written: MANE, THECEL, PHARES.
27THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.
Cross References
Job 14:14Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.
Isaiah 21:1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
Jeremiah 25:11And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah 27:7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son: till the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great kings shall serve him.
Daniel 9:2The first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the desolation of Jerusalem.
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 →