Daniel 5:27
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
28PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Cross References
Job 31:6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.
Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
Matthew 22:11“But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,
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 →