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THIS IS THE INTERPRETATION OF THE THING - It may seem not to have been
difficult to interpret the meaning of the communication, when one was
able to read the words, or when the sense of the words was...
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CHAPTER 5 BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST
_ 1. Belshazzar's licentious feast (Daniel 5:1)_
2. The writing on the wall (Daniel 5:5)
3. Forgotten Daniel (Daniel 5:10)
4. The message of Daniel ...
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DANIEL 5. Belshazzar, who is represented as king of Babylon, makes a
great feast, using the vessels which his father had brought to Babylon
from the Temple at Jerusalem. During the feast the fingers o...
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_finished it_ COMPLETED _it_, given it its full and complete measure
of time. Cp. the cognate adj. in Genesis 15:16 (-full," -complete")....
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The reading and interpretation of the writing....
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d. TRAGEDY
TEXT: Daniel 5:24-31
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then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing
was inscribed,
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And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
UPHARSIN....
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This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy
kingdom, and finished it.
MENE; GOD HATH NUMBERED THY KINGDOM. God hath fixed the number of
years of thine empire, and that num...
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5:26 thing. (a-7) Or 'words;' as 'command,' ch. 2.5; 'word,' ch. 2.8....
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BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST
Belshazzar, king of Babylon, holds a great feast, at which he
profanely uses the sacred vessels taken by Nebuchadnezzar from the
Temple at Jerusalem (Daniel 5:1). He is terrified at...
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THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD
DANIEL
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 5
V1 King Belshazzar had a big party. He invited a thousand important
people and he drank wine with them. V2 As Belshazzar drank wine,...
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דְּנָ֖ה פְּשַֽׁר ־מִלְּתָ֑א מְנֵ֕א
מְנָֽה ־אֱלָהָ֥א...
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THE FIERY INSCRIPTION
IN this chapter again we have another magnificent fresco-picture,
intended, as was the last-but under circumstances of aggravated guilt
and more terrible menace-to teach the les...
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WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING
Daniel 5:17-31
Daniel was unperturbed and undismayed. Calm and collected, he
recognized his Father's handwriting, and read it, as the instructed
may decipher a scroll which...
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The next scene is cast in the reign of Belshazzar. He had succeeded to
the throne of his father, and was a man of profligate habits. No
details are given of his reign, but a graphic picture is set bef...
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There is some little difficulty to an ordinary Reader in observing,
that the words of the hand writing on the wall, and the manner of
Daniel's interpreting them are not the same. The word MENE is twic...
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In chapter 5 the iniquity of the head of the Gentiles with respect to
the God of Israel reaches the highest point, and assumes that
character of insolence and contempt which is but the effort of
weakn...
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THIS IS THE INTERPRETATION OF THE THING,.... Or, "word" z; for they
might all seem as one word; or this is the sense of the whole:
MENE; as for this word, it signifies,
GOD HATH NUMBERED THY KINGDOM...
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This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy
kingdom, and finished it.
Ver. 26. _MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom._] He hath cast up thy
reckonings, taken account of thy...
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_Then was part of the hand sent from him_ The LXX. read, Δια
τουτο εκ προσωπου αυτου απεσταλη
αστραγαλος χειρος, και την γραφην
ταυτην ενεταξε. “On this account hath the joint, or
part of a hand, been...
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This is the interpretation of the thing, of the writing on the wall:
MENE, GOD HATH NUMBERED THY KINGDOM AND FINISHED IT, that is, the
duration of Belshazzar's kingship, of his reign, was now determin...
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THE INTERPRETATION AND THE FULFILMENT...
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18-31 Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the
judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are
pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but t...
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MENE, MENE; He hath numbered, or, It is numbered, it is numbered.
These words are doubled for the greater confirmation, to note that the
number of his sins and of his days, both of life and reign, are...
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Daniel 5:26 This H1836 interpretation H6591 word H4406 MENE H4484
(H8752) God H426 numbered H4483 (H8754) kingdom...
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“Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this
writing was inscribed. And this is the writing that was inscribed,
MENEMENETEKELUPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing:
· MENE...
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Daniel 5:1
I. Belshazzar's feast was characterised by great intemperance.
II. It was characterised by great profanity.
III. This night was one of supernatural visitation.
IV. This was a night of t...
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CONTENTS: Daniel's personal history under Belshazzar and Darius. The
pride of Belshazzar and his downfall. The writing on the wall. Its
interpretation and fulfillment.
CHARACTERS: God, Belshazzar, Qu...
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Daniel 5:2. _Belshazzar his father Nebuchadnezzar._ Belshazzar was the
son of Evilmerodach, and grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. The empire
therefore falling at this time, fulfilled the prophecy, that all...
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_And this writing was written._
WRITING ON THE WALL AT BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST
I. THE SCENE IN WHICH IT OCCURRED. An eastern palace.
1. It was a scene of drunkenness and revelling. The narrative makes
th...
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DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 5:1 Daniel explains to Belshazzar, the last
king of Babylon, that the writing on the wall is a message that the
true God rules over all. In his own time, this true God will vindi...
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DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 5:13 Daniel alone is able to decipher the
writing on the wall. It is a message from the true God, telling of the
end of the Babylonian Empire.
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_HOMILETICS_
SECT. XVII.—BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST (Chap. 5.)
This chapter deservedly a favourite with general readers [126]. The
magnificence, excitement, and revelry of the royal feast; the
profligate kin...
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EXPOSITION
DANIEL 5:1
BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST.
In regard to this chapter the peculiar state of the Septuagint text
has to be noted. At the beginning of the chapter there are three
verses which seem to be...
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Shall we turn now in our Bible to Daniel, chapter 5.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and
drank wine before the thousands (Daniel 5:1).
There are men who call themse...
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Acts 15:18; Daniel 9:2; Isaiah 14:32; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 47:1;...
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MENE — MENE MENE, it is numbered, it is numbered; the words are
doubled for the greater confirmation. It relates to the number of the
seventy years for the overthrow of the Babylonish empire....