Daniel 5:27
'Tekel,' 'you are weighed in the scales and are found lacking.'
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
26This is its meaning: 'Mene,' 'God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end.'
28'Peres,' 'your kingdom is divided and is given to the Medes and Persians.'”
Cross References
Job 31:6let me be weighed in an even balance 1 so that God will know my integrity. 1
Proverbs 21:2Every person's way is right in his own eyes, 1 but it is Yahweh who weighs the hearts. 1
Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the leftovers of bronze and tin, and iron and lead in the midst of you. They will be like the dross of silver in your furnace.
Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
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 →