DANIEL—NOTE ON Daniel 5:5 The fingers of a mysterious hand wrote on the plaster of the palace wall opposite the lampstand, where its message could be clearly seen. The king’s response was terror: literally, the “joints of his loins were loosened.” None of the Babylonian magicians were able to interpret the writing. Anyone who interpreted the writing would be clothed with purple, an expensive color in the ancient world, and would wear a chain of gold, a mark of high rank. He would also be the third ruler in the kingdom, which may refer to being next highest to King Nabonidus and the co-regent Belshazzar.

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