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Daniel 5:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end. "

Daniel 5:26

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24 Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’

26 “This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.

27 TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

28 PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

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Daniel 5:1

"Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand."

Daniel 5:2

"Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him, that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them."

Daniel 5:3

"Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them."

Daniel 5:4

"They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone."

Daniel 5:5

"In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote."

Daniel 5:6

"Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another."

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