Daniel 5:27
TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found lacking.
Updated King James Version
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 has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.
28PERES; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Cross References
Job 31:6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.
Ezekiel 22:18Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
Matthew 22:11And when the king came in to see the guest, he saw 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 →