Daniel 5:27
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
28PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
Cross References
Job 31:6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
Proverbs 21:2All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in 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 →