Daniel 5:25-29

The Interpretation: Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

Daniel 5:25-29

The Interpretation: Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

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And this is the writing that he hath written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.
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This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God hath nombred thy kingdome, and hath finished it.
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TEKEL, thou art wayed in the balance, and art found too light.
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PERES, thy kingdome is deuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians.
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Then at the commandement of Belshazzar they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chaine of golde about his necke, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdome.
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Job 31:6

    Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shall know mine vprightnes.
    from verse 27

  • 1 Corinthians 3:13

    Euery mans worke shalbe made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shalbe reueiled by the fire: and the fire shall trie euery mans worke of what sort it is.
    from verse 27

  • Psalms 62:9

    Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
    from verse 27

  • Daniel 6:28

    So this Daniel prospered in the reigne of Darius and in the reigne of Cyrus of Persia.
    from verse 28

  • Isaiah 13:17

    Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regarde siluer, nor be desirous of golde.
    from verse 28

  • Daniel 5:7

    Wherefore the King cryed loude, that they should bring the astrologians, the Caldeans and the soothsayers. And the King spake, and sayd to the wise men of Babel, Whosoeuer can reade this writing, and declare me the interpretation thereof, shalbe clothed with purple, and shall haue a chaine of golde about his necke, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdome.
    from verse 29

  • Daniel 5:16

    Then heard I of thee, that thou couldest shewe interpretations, and dissolue doutes: nowe if thou canst reade the writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shalt haue a chaine of golde about thy necke, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdome.
    from verse 29

  • Ezekiel 22:18

    Sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse: all they are brasse, and tinne, and yron, and leade in the mids of the fornace: they are euen the drosse of siluer.
    from verse 27

  • Ezekiel 22:20

    As they gather siluer and brasse, and yron, and leade, and tinne into the middes of the fornace, to blowe the fire vpon it to melt it, so wil I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and wil put you there and melt you.
    from verse 27

  • Jeremiah 6:30

    They shall call them reprobate siluer, because the Lord hath reiected them.
    from verse 27

  • Daniel 5:31

    And Darius of the Medes tooke the kingdome, being threescore and two yeere olde.
    from verse 28

  • Isaiah 21:2

    A grieuous vision was shewed vnto me, The transgressour against a transgressour, and the destroyer against a destroyer. Goe vp Elam, besiege Media: I haue caused all the mourning thereof to cease.
    from verse 28
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