Daniel 5:27
T’kel,—thou art weighed [="Weighed"] in the balances, and found wanting;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
In Context
28P’res [="Snatched-away"],—snatched away is thy kingdom, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Cross References
Job 31:6Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness,—and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man, may be right in his own eyes, but, he that testeth hearts, is Yahweh.
Ezekiel 22:18Son of man, The house of Israel hath become to me, dross,— They all are copper and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, The dross of silver, have they become.
Matthew 22:11But the king, entering to view the guests, saw there a man, who had not put 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 →