“ TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ”
Tekel - This word ( תקל t e qēl ) is also, according to Gesenius, a passive participle (from תקל t e qal - “to poise, to weigh”), and means “weighed.” It would be used with referen...
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...
The exposition of the word Tekel, to weigh, now follows: — Since thou hast been weighed in the balance, or scale, and found wanting Here Daniel shews God so moderating his judgments, as i...
DISCOURSE: 1129 SCRIPTURE BALANCES Daniel 5:27 . Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting . THE words before us were uttered in reference to a single individual, Belshazzar, king...
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances. The Egyptians thought that Osiris weighed the actions of the dead in a literal balance...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GOD’S SCALES ‘Weighed … and … found wanting.’ Daniel 5:27 I. God’s scales are adjustable scales. —He weighs in reference to quality as well as quantity. He weighs the lives of men as a lapi...
TEKEL ,.... As for the meaning of this word, and what it points at, it is this: thou art weighed in the balances : of justice and truth, in the holy righteous law of God; as gold, and jewels, and...
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Ver. 27. TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, a and art found wanting.] As the former was a term taken from creditors, so this...
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 Brought before Belshazzar. B. C. 538. 10 Now the queen, by reason of the word...
Thou art weighed in a hanging balance, alluding to the weighing of goods exactly in scales; and God is said to weigh the mountains in scales: it shows his just proceeding; God is not hasty in punishi...
“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...
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 5:1-31 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 5:2 . 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...
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...
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...
The Interpretation and the Fulfilment
1 Corinthians 3:13 ; Ezekiel 22:18-20 ; Jeremiah 6:30 ; Job 31:6 ; Matthew 22:11 ; Matthew 22:12 ; Psalms 62:9
Art found wanting — There is no weight nor worth in thee; thou hast made light of God, and the Lord makes light of thee.