Daniel 5:27
Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found lacking.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
26This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mane; God has measured your kingdom, and finished it.
28Phares; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Cross References
Job 31:6(for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)
Proverbs 21:2Every man seems to himself righteous; but the Lord directs the hearts.
Ezekiel 22:18Son of man, behold, the house of Israel are all become to me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.
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 →