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Daniel 5:27 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. "

Daniel 5:27

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25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished

27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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From This Chapter

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, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink"

Daniel 5:3

"Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank"

Daniel 5:4

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

Daniel 5:5

"In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote."

Daniel 5:6

"Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another."
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