Daniel 5:5
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5 (A)In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
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Daniel 5:6
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6 Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his (A)knees knocked against each other.
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Daniel 5:22-31
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22 “But you his son, Belshazzar, (A)have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this. 23 (B)And you have [a]lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the (C)vessels of [b]His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, (D)which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand (E)and owns all your ways, you have not glorified. 24 Then the [c]fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written.
25 “And this is the inscription that was written:
[d]MENE, MENE, [e]TEKEL, [f]UPHARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; 27 TEKEL: (F)You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; 28 PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the (G)Medes and (H)Persians.”[g] 29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him (I)that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Belshazzar’s Fall
30 (J)That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. 31 (K)And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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- Daniel 5:23 Exalted
- Daniel 5:23 The temple
- Daniel 5:24 Lit. palm
- Daniel 5:25 Lit. a mina (50 shekels) from the verb “to number”
- Daniel 5:25 Lit. a shekel from the verb “to weigh”
- Daniel 5:25 Lit. and half-shekels from the verb “to divide”; pl. of Peres, v. 28
- Daniel 5:28 Aram. Paras, consonant with Peres
Ezra 1:1-4
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End of the Babylonian Captivity(A)
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord (B)by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, (C)so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has (D)commanded me to build Him a [a]house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. 3 Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel (E)(He is God), which is in Jerusalem. 4 And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
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- Ezra 1:2 Temple
Ezra 4:3
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3 But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, (A)“You may do nothing with us to build a [a]house for our God; but we alone will build to the Lord God of Israel, as (B)King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
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- Ezra 4:3 Temple
Ezra 5:13-17
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13 However, in the first year of (A)Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to build this [a]house of God. 14 Also, (B)the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple that was in Jerusalem and carried into the temple of Babylon—those King Cyrus took from the temple of Babylon, and they were given to (C)one named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor. 15 And he said to him, ‘Take these articles; go, carry them to the temple site that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its former site.’ 16 Then the same Sheshbazzar came and (D)laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem; but from that time even until now it has been under construction, and (E)it is not finished.”
17 Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, (F)let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there in Babylon, whether it is so that a decree was issued by King Cyrus to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us his pleasure concerning this matter.
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- Ezra 5:13 Temple
Ezra 6:3-5
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3 In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a (A)decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem: “Let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offered sacrifices; and let the foundations of it be firmly laid, its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits, 4 (B)with three rows of heavy stones and one row of new timber. Let the (C)expenses be paid from the king’s treasury. 5 Also let (D)the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple which is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and taken back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; and deposit them in the house of God”—
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