English Standard Version
Daniel 5:26
26This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
Daniel 5:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- New International Version (NIV)“Here is what these words mean: Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
- New King James Version (NKJV)This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;
- New Living Translation (NLT)This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.
Context of Daniel 5:26
24"Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. 25And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; 28Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
Read all of Daniel 5Daniel 5:26 word by word
דְּנָ֖ה פְּשַֽׁר־מִלְּתָ֑א מְנֵ֕א מְנָֽה־אֱלָהָ֥א מַלְכוּתָ֖ךְ וְהַשְׁלְמַֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Thisדְּנָהdên · thisH1836
- the interpretationפְּשַׁרpeshar · interpretationH6591
- of the thingמִלָּהmillâh · wordH4406
- MENEמְנֵאmenê' · minaH4484
- Godאֱלָהּ'ĕlâhh · godH426
- hath numberedמְנָהmenâ' menâh · to reckon/appointH4483
- thy kingdomמַלְכוּmalkû · kingdomH4437
- and finishedשְׁלֵםshelam · be completeH8000
Cross-references for Daniel 5:26
- Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
- Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
- Isaiah 13:1The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
- Isaiah 14:1For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
- Isaiah 21:1The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
- Isaiah 47:1Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
- Jeremiah 25:11This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Jeremiah 27:7All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
- Jeremiah 50:1The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:
- Jeremiah 51:1Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,
- Acts 15:18known from of old.'
Commentaries on Daniel 5:26
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-31Verses 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 they will be judged by One to whom all things are open. Daniel reads the sentence written on the wall. All this may well be applied to the doom of every sinner. At death, the sinner's days are numbered and finished; after death is the judgment, when he…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26MENE means that God has numbered the days: In this context, it means that God had examined and evaluated Belshazzar’s reignRead the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. God hath fixed the number of years of thine empire, and that number is now complete.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Daniel 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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