Daniel 5:25-31
New King James Version
25 “And this is the inscription that was written:
[a]MENE, MENE, [b]TEKEL, [c]UPHARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; 27 TEKEL: (A)You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; 28 PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the (B)Medes and (C)Persians.”[d] 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 (D)that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Belshazzar’s Fall
30 (E)That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. 31 (F)And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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- 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
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