Daniel 5:27
TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
28PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'
Cross References
Job 31:6Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity —
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the hearts.
Ezekiel 22:18'Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto Me; all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
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 →