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Daniel 5:26

Judgment

24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.

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

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

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.

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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.

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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

    Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

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  • Jeremiah 27:7

    And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

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  • Jeremiah 25:11–12

    And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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  • Acts 15:18

    Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

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  • Daniel 9:2

    In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

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  • Isaiah 21:1–10

    The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

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  • Jeremiah 50:1–46

    The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

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  • Isaiah 13:1–14

    The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

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