Daniel 5:6

He became very frightened, and his face became pale/white. His knees started shaking, and his legs became very weak, with the result that he could not stand up.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

In Context

5Suddenly they saw a man’s hand writing on the plaster of the wall opposite the lampstand. The king also saw the hand as it was writing.

7Then he shouted to summon the men who worked magic, the men who studied the stars, and the fortune-tellers. He said, “I will greatly honor any one of them who can read this writing and tell me what it means. I will give him a purple robe like I wear because I am the king, and I will put a gold chain around his neck. He will become a very important official in my kingdom; there will be only two others who will be more important than he will be.”

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Cross References

Job 20:19because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them, and they took other people’s houses by cheating them.

Psalms 73:18Now I know that you will surely put them in slippery places, and they will fall down and die.

Isaiah 13:7All of your people will be very afraid [DOU], with the result that they will be unable even to lift their arms.

Isaiah 35:3So, encourage those who are tired and weak.

Ezekiel 7:17Because everyone will be very afraid, all the people’s hands will become limp and their knees will become very weak.

Daniel 2:1One night during the second year that Nebuchadnezzar ruled, he had a dream. The dream worried him very much; and as a result he could not sleep.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:2-10

Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. ( b. c. 538.) 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God… Read the whole commentary →

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