Daniel 5:6

his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

In Context

5At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

7The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

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Cross References

Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Isaiah 13:7Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

Ezekiel 7:17Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

Daniel 2:1In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.

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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