Daniel 5:27
Tekel means ‘weighed’. It is as though God has weighed you on a scale, and you do not weigh what you should, which means that you have not been doing what you should; you are not fit to be a king [MET].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
Cross References
Job 31:6I request only that God judge me fairly [MET], and if he does that, he will know that I ◄am innocent/have not done what is wrong►.
Proverbs 21:2People always think that what they do is right, but Yahweh judges our ◄motives/reasons for doing things► [MTY].
Ezekiel 22:18“You human, your Israeli people [MTY] have become useless to me. They are like [MET] dross/slag to me. They are like [SIM] the worthless copper, tin, iron, and lead that remains after silver is melted in a very hot furnace.
Matthew 22:11But when the king went into the hall to see the guests who were there, he saw someone who was not wearing clothes that had been provided for the guests to wear at a wedding feast.
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 →