Daniel 5:27
What meaning of the daniel 5:27 in the Bible?
What does Daniel 5:27 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
What does Daniel 5:27 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
TEKEL - This word (תקל _t__e__qēl_) is also, according to Gesenius, a passive participle (from תקל _t__e__qal_ - “to poise, to weigh”), and means “weighed.” It would be used with reference to anythin...
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 (Daniel 5:17) Danie...
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...
THOU ART WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES AND FOUND WANTING. The second word is _Tekel,_ which is from. Hebrew verb and means "weighed." The first word applies to the kingdom, the second to the king. The scal...
The reading and interpretation of the writing....
DISCOURSE: 1129 SCRIPTURE BALANCES Daniel 5:27. _Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting_. THE words before us were uttered in reference to a single individual, Belshazzar, king of B...
d. TRAGEDY TEXT: Daniel 5:24-31 24 then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed, 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN....
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. TEKEL; THOU ART WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES. The Egyptians thought that Osiris weighed the actions of the dead in a literal balance. The...
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 a...
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,...
תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְ מֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְ הִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_GOD’S SCALES_ ‘Weighed … and … found wanting.’ Daniel 5:27 I. GOD’S SCALES ARE ADJUSTABLE SCALES.—He weighs in reference to quality as well as quantity. He weighs the lives of men as a lapidary w...
The exposition of the word Tekel, _to weigh, _now follows: — _Since thou hast been weighed in the balance, or scale, and found wanting _Here Daniel shews God so moderating his judgments, as if he was...
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...
TEKEL,.... As for the meaning of this word, and what it points at, it is this: THOU ART WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES: of justice and truth, in the holy righteous law of God; as gold, and jewels, and preci...
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Ver. 27. TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, _a_ and art found wanting.] As the former was a term taken from creditors, so this fr...
_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...
THE INTERPRETATION AND THE FULFILMENT...
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 th...
Thou art weighed in a hanging balance, alluding to the weighing of goods exactly in scales; and God is said to weigh the mountains in scales: it shows his just proceeding; God is not hasty in punishin...
Daniel 5:27 TEKEL H8625 (H8752) weighed H8625 (H8760) balances H3977 found H7912 (H8728) wanting H2627 Thou - Job 31:6; Psalms 62:9; Jeremiah 6:30; Ezekiel 22:18-20 art -...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
_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 t...
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...
_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...
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 b...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:13; Ezekiel 22:18; Jeremiah 6:30; Job 31:6; Matthew 22:11; Matthew 22:12; Psalms 62:9...
Art found wanting — There is no weight nor worth in thee; thou hast made light of God, and the Lord makes light of thee....