Daniel 5:25
This is the message that it wrote: ‘ Mene, mene, tekel, parsin.’
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
In Context
24So God sent that hand to write a message for you.
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:19Yahweh will enable the Philistia army to defeat you and all the other Israeli soldiers. And tomorrow you and your sons will be with me in the place where spirits of dead people are. Yahweh will cause the whole Israeli army to be defeated by the Philistia army.” And after Samuel said that, he disappeared.
Isaiah 14:11You were very proud and powerful, but all that ended when you died, along with the sounds of harps being played in your palace. Now in your grave maggots will be under you like a sheet [MET], and worms will cover you like a blanket [MET].
Jeremiah 27:7The people of all the nations will work for him, and later for his son, and later for his grandson, until the time for them to rule is finished. Then the armies of many great kings from many nations will conquer Babylon.’
Luke 1:51He shows people that he [MTY] is very powerful. He scatters those who think proudly.
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 →