Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mane; God has measured your kingdom, and finished it.
LXX2012 (British)
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 ordered writing, Mane, Thekel, Phares.
27Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found lacking.
Cross References
Job 14:14For if a man should die, shall he live again, having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?
Isaiah 21:1THE VISION OF THE DESERT. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land,
Jeremiah 25:11And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve amongst the Gentiles seventy years.
Jeremiah 27:7All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers had a pasture of righteousness.
Daniel 9:2I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremias, even seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.
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 →