Daniel 5:26
Here is the meaning: Number—God has numbered your reign and brought it to an end.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
In Context
25What was written on the wall was this: ‘Number, number, weigh, divide.’
27Weighed—you have been weighed on the balances and you were found lacking.
Cross References
Job 14:14Will the dead live again? Then I would have hope through all my time of trouble until my release comes.
Isaiah 21:1A message about the desert by the sea. Like storm winds passing through the Negev, something is coming from the desert, from a land of terror—
Jeremiah 25:11This whole country will become an empty wasteland, and Judah and these other nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Jeremiah 27:7All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time that his own land comes under the control of other nations and powerful kings.
Daniel 9:2During the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures as given to the prophet Jeremiah that the time of seventy years for Jerusalem to lie desolate would soon be fulfilled.
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 →