Daniel 5:26
24 Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
25 Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
27 TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
- KJV
- This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- WEB
- “This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
- ASV
- This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;
- DARBY
- This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;
- BLB
- This [is] the interpretation of each word: Mene—God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end!
- ÅB
- Og så er uttydningen av dette ord: Mene: Tellet har Gud ditt kongedømmes dager og gjort ende på det.
- OTB
- Dette er betydningen av ordene: Mene: Gud har talt ditt rikes dager og gjort ende på det.
- B1930
- Og så er uttydningen av dette ord: Mene: Tellet har Gud ditt kongedømmes dager og gjort ende på det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 47:1–15
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
Read in contextJeremiah 27:7
All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
Read in contextJeremiah 25:11–12
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Read in contextActs 15:18
that have been known for ages.’
Read in contextDaniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
Read in contextIsaiah 21:1–10
This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
Read in contextJeremiah 50:1–46
This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:
Read in contextIsaiah 13:1–14
This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
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