Daniel 5:27
tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
28peres; Thy malchut is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Cross References
Job 31:6Let me be weighed in scales of tzedek 1 that Eloah may know mine tom (integrity). 1
Proverbs 21:2Every derech ish is yashar (right) in his own eynayim, 1 but Hashem weigheth the hearts. 1
Ezekiel 22:18Ben adam, Bais Yisroel is to Me become sig (dross, smelting waste product); all they are nechoshet, and bedil (tin), and barzel (iron), and oferet (lead), in the midst of the kur (furnace); they are even the siggim (drosses) of kesef.
Matthew 22:11And the Melech, having entered to see the ones sitting bimesibba (reclining at tish), spotted there a man lacking the attire proper for the chasunoh. + 22:11 See Yn 3:3,5
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 →