Daniel 5:26
This is its meaning: 'Mene,' 'God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end.'
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
In Context
25This is the writing that was done: 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Pharsin.'
27'Tekel,' 'you are weighed in the scales and are found lacking.'
Cross References
Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? 1 If so, I would wish to wait all my weary time there 1 until my release should come. 1
Isaiah 21:1A declaration about the desert by the sea. 1 Like stormwinds sweeping through the Negev it comes 1 passing through from the wilderness, from a terrible land. 1
Jeremiah 25:11Then all of this land will become a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Jeremiah 27:7For all the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his land comes. Then many nations and great kings will subdue him.
Daniel 9:2Now in the first year of Darius' reign I, Daniel, was studying the books containing Yahweh's word, the word that had come to Jeremiah the prophet. I observed that there would be seventy years until Jerusalem's abandonment would end.
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 →