Daniel 5:27
THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
28PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.
Cross References
Job 31:6Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.
Ezekiel 22:18Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
Matthew 22:11And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.
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 →