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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 reference
to anythin...
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CHAPTER 5 BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST
_ 1. Belshazzar's licentious feast (Daniel 5:1)_
2. The writing on the wall (Daniel 5:5)
3. Forgotten Daniel (Daniel 5:10)
4. The message of Daniel ...
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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 fingers o...
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THOU ART WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES AND FOUND WANTING.
The second word is _Tekel,_ which is from. Hebrew verb and means
"weighed." The first word applies to the kingdom, the second to the
king. The scale...
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The reading and interpretation of the writing....
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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 of Ba...
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d. TRAGEDY
TEXT: Daniel 5:24-31
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then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing
was inscribed,
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And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
UPHARSIN....
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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. The...
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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). He is terrified at...
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THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD
DANIEL
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 5
V1 King Belshazzar had a big party. He invited a thousand important
people and he drank wine with them. V2 As Belshazzar drank wine,...
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תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְ
מֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְ הִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ...
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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 les...
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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 which...
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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 bef...
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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 twic...
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_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 lapidary
w...
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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 if he was...
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In chapter 5 the iniquity of the head of the Gentiles with respect to
the God of Israel reaches the highest point, and assumes that
character of insolence and contempt which is but the effort of
weakn...
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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 preci...
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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 fr...
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_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, been...
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Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, namely, in those of God's
righteousness and justice, his character analyzed according to the
demands of God's holiness, AND ART FOUND WANTING, below weight in...
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THE INTERPRETATION AND THE FULFILMENT...
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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 t...
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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 punishin...
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“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:
· MENE...
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Daniel 5:1
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 night of t...
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CONTENTS: Daniel's personal history under Belshazzar and Darius. The
pride of Belshazzar and his downfall. The writing on the wall. Its
interpretation and fulfillment.
CHARACTERS: God, Belshazzar, Qu...
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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 all...
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_Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting._
WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING
I. BELSHAZZAR WEIGHED.
1. By his conscience. “His thoughts troubled him.”
2. By his fellow-men. Confronted by Daniel...
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_And this writing was written._
WRITING ON THE WALL AT BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST
I. THE SCENE IN WHICH IT OCCURRED. An eastern palace.
1. It was a scene of drunkenness and revelling. The narrative makes
th...
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DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 5:1 Daniel explains to Belshazzar, the last
king of Babylon, that the writing on the wall is a message that the
true God rules over all. In his own time, this true God will vindi...
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DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 5:13 Daniel alone is able to decipher the
writing on the wall. It is a message from the true God, telling of the
end of the Babylonian Empire.
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_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 kin...
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EXPOSITION
DANIEL 5:1
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 which seem to be...
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Shall we turn now in our Bible to Daniel, chapter 5.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and
drank wine before the thousands (Daniel 5:1).
There are men who call themse...
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1 Corinthians 3:13; Ezekiel 22:18; Jeremiah 6:30; Job 31:6; M
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Art found wanting — There is no weight nor worth in thee; thou hast
made light of God, and the Lord makes light of thee....