Daniel 5:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. ”

Daniel 5:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing - It may seem not to have been difficult to interpret the meaning of the communication, when one was able to read the words, or when the sense of the words...
Daniel 5:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5. Belshazzar, who is represented as king of Babylon, makes a great feast, using the vessels which his father had brought to Babylon from the Temple at Jerusalem. During the feast the finger...
Daniel 5:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
Daniel 5:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom. God hath fixed the number of years of thine empire, and tha...
Daniel 5:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Belshazzar's Feast Belshazzar, king of Babylon, holds a great feast, at which he profanely uses the sacred vessels taken by Nebuchadnezzar from the Temple at Jerusalem ( Daniel 5:1-4 ). He is terr...
Daniel 5:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FIERY INSCRIPTION IN this chapter again we have another magnificent fresco-picture, intended, as was the last-but under circumstances of aggravated guilt and more terrible menace-to teach the...
Daniel 5:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Weighed and Found Wanting Daniel 5:17-31 Daniel was unperturbed and undismayed. Calm and collected, he recognized his Father's handwriting, and read it, as the instructed may decipher a scroll...
Daniel 5:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The next scene is cast in the reign of Belshazzar. He had succeeded to the throne of his father, and was a man of profligate habits. No details are given of his reign, but a graphic picture is set be...
Daniel 5:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is some little difficulty to an ordinary Reader in observing, that the words of the hand writing on the wall, and the manner of Daniel's interpreting them are not the same. The word MENE is twi...
Daniel 5:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing ,.... Or, "word" z; for they might all seem as one word; or this is the sense of the whole: MENE ; as for this word, it signifies, God hath numbered thy k...
Daniel 5:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Ver. 26. MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom. ] He hath cast up thy reckonings, taken account of th...
Daniel 5:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then was part of the hand sent from him The LXX. read, Δια τουτο εκ προσωπου αυτου απεσταλη αστραγαλος χειρος, και την γραφην ταυτην ενεταξε. “On this account hath the joint, or part of a hand, bee...
Daniel 5:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel Brought before Belshazzar. B. C. 538. 10 Now the queen, by reason of the word...
Daniel 5:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Mene, Mene; He hath numbered, or, It is numbered, it is numbered. These words are doubled for the greater confirmation, to note that the number of his sins and of his days, both of life and reign,...
Daniel 5:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed. And this is the writing that was inscribed, MENEMENETEKELUPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: · MEN...
Daniel 5:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICS SECT. XVII.—BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST (Chap. 5.) This chapter deservedly a favourite with general readers [126]. The magnificence, excitement, and revelry of the royal feast; the profligate k...
Daniel 5:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:1-31 I. Belshazzar's feast was characterised by great intemperance. II. It was characterised by great profanity. III. This night was one of supernatural visitation. IV. This was a nigh...
Daniel 5:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:2 . Belshazzar his father Nebuchadnezzar. Belshazzar was the son of Evilmerodach, and grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. The empire therefore falling at this time, fulfilled the prophecy, that a...
Daniel 5:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

And this writing was written. Writing on the Wall at Belshazzar’s Feast I. T HE SCENE IN WHICH IT OCCURRED . An eastern palace. 1. It was a scene of drunkenness and revelling. The narrative...
Daniel 5:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Daniel 5:1-27 BELSHAZZAR 'S FEAST . In regard to this chapter the peculiar state of the Septuagint text has to be noted. At the beginning of the chapter there are three verses...
Daniel 5:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Interpretation and the Fulfilment
Daniel 5:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 15:18 ; Daniel 9:2 ; Isaiah 14:32 ; Isaiah 21:1-10 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Jeremiah 25:11 ; Jeremiah 25:12 ; Jeremiah 27:7 ; Jeremiah 51:64 ; Job 14:14
Daniel 5:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

MENE — MENE MENE, it is numbered, it is numbered; the words are doubled for the greater confirmation. It relates to the number of the seventy years for the overthrow of the Babylonish empire.

Daniel 5:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Daniel 5:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Daniel 5:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Daniel 5:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Daniel 5:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Daniel 5:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Daniel 5:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Daniel 5:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Daniel 5:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Daniel 5:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Daniel 5:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 5:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Daniel 5:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Daniel 5:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 5:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

Daniel 5:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Daniel 5:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Daniel 5:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 5:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes