Daniel 5:6

Daniel 5:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
• New International Version (NIV)His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

Context of Daniel 5:6

4They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone. 5Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing. Then the king’s face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together. 7The king called aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Any man who can read this inscription and explain its interpretation to me shall be clothed with purple and have a necklace of gold around his neck, and have authority as third ruler in the kingdom.” 8Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.

Daniel 5:6 word by word

אֱדַ֤יִן מַלְכָּא֙ זִיוֹ֣הִי שְׁנ֔וֹהִי וְרַעיֹנֹ֖הִי יְבַהֲלוּנֵּ֑הּ וְקִטְרֵ֤י חַרְצֵהּ֙ מִשְׁתָּרַ֔יִן וְאַ֨רְכֻבָּתֵ֔הּ דָּ֥א לְדָ֖א נָֽקְשָֽׁן׃Read the interlinear

• Thenאֱדַ֫יִן'ĕdayin · thenH116
• the king’sמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4430
• faceזִיוzîyv · splendorH2122
• grewשְׁנָאshenâ' · to changeH8133
• and his thoughtsרַעְיוֹןra‛yôn · thoughtH7476
• alarmedבְּהַלbehal · to dismayH927
• hipחֲרַץchărats · loinH2783
• jointsקְטַרqeţar · jointH7001
• wentשְׁרָאsherê' · to looseH8271
• began knockingנְקַשׁneqash · to knockH5368
• togetherדָּאdâ' · thisH1668

Cross-references for Daniel 5:6

• Daniel 5:9Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, his face grew even paler, and his nobles were perplexed.
• Daniel 2:1Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.
• Daniel 3:19Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and his facial expression was altered toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. He answered by giving orders to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
• Job 15:20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, And numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless.
• Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.
• Psalms 73:18Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.
• Isaiah 21:2A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused.
• Daniel 5:10The queen entered the banquet hall because of the words of the king and his nobles; the queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or your face be pale.
• Daniel 4:5I saw a dream and it made me fearful; and these fantasies as I lay on my bed and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.
• Daniel 7:28“At this point the revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were greatly alarming me and my face grew pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”
• Psalms 69:23May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually.
• Isaiah 13:7Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man’s heart will melt.
• Isaiah 21:3For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.
• Isaiah 5:27No one in it is weary or stumbles, None slumbers or sleeps; Nor is the belt at its waist undone, Nor its sandal strap broken.
• Isaiah 35:3Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.
• Ezekiel 7:17All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.

Commentaries on Daniel 5:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6The king's countenance was changed - Here is a very natural description of fear and terror. The face grows pale; The mind becomes greatly agitated; Pains seize on the lower part of the back and kidneys; A universal tremor takes place, so that the knees smite against each other; 5. And lastly, either a syncope takes place, or the cry of distress is uttered, Daniel 5:7; : "The king cried."Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6The supernatural hand shocked and terrified the people at the feast. Yet Belshazzar still did not repent (Daniel 5:29; compare Jeremiah 38:19–24; Acts 24:25).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. countenance--literally, "brightness," that is, his bright look. joints of his loins--"the vertebræ of his back" [Gesenius].Read the comment

Topics related to Daniel 5:6

• Belshazzar
• Conviction
• Countenance
• Drunkenness
• Fear of God
• Symbols and Similitudes
• Wicked (People)
• Women

In the dictionaries

• Gift
• Light
• Loose
• Aramaic; Aramaic Language
• Baruch, Book of
• Bible, the
• Countenance
• Daniel, Book of
• Feeble Knees
• Languages of the Old Testament

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