Daniel 5:26
This, is the interpretation of the thing,—M’ne [="Reckoned-up"], God hath reckoned up thy reign, and ended it:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
In Context
25And this is the writing which was inscribed, M’ne, M’ne, T’kel, u-Pharsin.
27T’kel,—thou art weighed [="Weighed"] in the balances, and found wanting;
Cross References
Job 14:14If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come:—
Isaiah 21:1The oracle on the desert of the sea: As storm-winds in the South which with a rush from the desert, do come from a terrible land,
Jeremiah 25:11So shall all this land become a desolation, an astonishment, And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon, seventy years.
Jeremiah 27:7Therefore shall all the nations serve him, and his son, and his son’s son,—until the time even of his own land, itself arrive, when many nations and great kings, shall use him as a slave.
Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived by the writings,—the number of the years, as to which the word of Yahweh came unto Jeremiah the prophet, to fulfil the desolations of Jerusalem, seventy years.
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 →