Daniel 5:6

His face turned pale, and he became very frightened. His legs gave way and his knees knocked together.

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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

5Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. The king watched the hand as it wrote.

7The king shouted, “Bring in the enchanters and astrologers and diviners!” He told these wise men of Babylon, “Anyone who can read this writing and explain it to me will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

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Cross References

Job 20:19For they have oppressed and abandoned the poor; they have seized houses they did not build.

Psalms 73:18For you send them on a slippery path; you throw them down to destruction.

Isaiah 13:7Everyone's hands will fall limp, and everyone will lose their minds in panic.

Isaiah 35:3Make the weak hands strong, and make the trembling knees firm!

Ezekiel 7:17Every hand will go limp, and every knee will go weak.

Daniel 2:1In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign the king had dreams that upset him so much that he found it difficult to sleep.

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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