New King James Version
Daniel 5:26
26This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
- 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
24Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written. 25“And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; 27TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; 28PERES: Your kingdom has been 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, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
- Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, Till my change comes.
- Isaiah 13:1The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
- Isaiah 14:1For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.
- Isaiah 21:1The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
- Isaiah 47:1“Come 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 25:11And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Jeremiah 27:7So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.
- Jeremiah 50:1The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
- Jeremiah 51:1Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai, A destroying wind.
- Acts 15:18“Known to God from eternity are all His works.
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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