Daniel 5:27
TEKEL, thou art wayed in the balance, and art found too light.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
26This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God hath nombred thy kingdome, and hath finished it.
28PERES, thy kingdome is deuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians.
Cross References
Job 31:6Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shall know mine vprightnes.
Proverbs 21:2Euery way of a man is right in his owne eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
Ezekiel 22:18Sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse: all they are brasse, and tinne, and yron, and leade in the mids of the fornace: they are euen the drosse of siluer.
Matthew 22:11Then the King came in, to see the ghestes, and sawe there a man which had not on a wedding garment.
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 →