Daniel 5:27
Weighed—You are weighed in the balances, and have been found lacking.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
28Divided—Your kingdom is divided, and it has been given to the Medes and Persians.”
Cross References
Job 31:6He weighs me in righteous balances, || And God knows my integrity.
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes, || And YHWH is pondering hearts.
Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has been for dross to Me, || All of them [are] bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, || In the midst of a furnace—silver has been dross,
Matthew 22:11And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with wedding clothes,
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 →