Daniel 5:26
This is the pesher (interpretation, explanation) of the thing; mene; G-d hath numbered thy malchut, and finished with it.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
In Context
25And this is the mikhtav (writing) that was written, mene, mene, tekel, ufarsin.
27tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Cross References
Job 14:14If a gever die, shall he live again? 1 All the days of my tzava (hard army service) will I wait, 1 till my chalifah (changing, renewal) come. 1
Isaiah 21:1The massa (burden) concerning the Midbar Yam (desert by the sea): 1 As sufot (whirlwinds) in the Negev sweep through; 1 so it cometh from the midbar, from eretz nora'ah. 1
Jeremiah 25:11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these Goyim shall serve Melech Bavel shiv'im shanah (seventy years). + 25:11 T.N. Note: length of Exile predicted here.
Jeremiah 27:7And all Goyim shall serve him, and bno, and ben bno, until the very time of his land come; and then many Goyim and great melachim shall make him serve [in bondage to] them.
Daniel 9:2In the shnat achat of his reign, I, Daniel, received binah (understanding) from the Sfarim (books, Kitvei Hakodesh) of the number of the shanim, that the Devar Hashem was unto Yirmeyah HaNavi, with respect to the desolations of Yerushalayim, SHIVIM SHANAH must be completed. + 9:2 Jer 25:11; 29:10
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 →