Daniel 5:27
Weighed—you have been weighed on the balances and you were found lacking.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
26Here is the meaning: Number—God has numbered your reign and brought it to an end.
28Divided—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.”
Cross References
Job 31:6No! Let God weigh me on the scales of his justice and let him discover my integrity.
Proverbs 21:2People think that whatever they do is fine, but the Lord looks at their motives.
Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the people of Israel have ended up like the impurities left over from refining metal. They're all like copper, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace—they are just the impurities left from refining silver.
Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who didn't have a wedding robe on.
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 →