Daniel 5:6

6 Alors le roi changea de couleur, et ses pensées le troublèrent; les jointures de ses reins se relâchèrent, et ses genoux se heurtèrent l'un contre l'autre.

Daniel 5:6 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 5:6

Then the kings countenance changed
Or, "his brightness" {l}; his ruddy countenance, his florid looks, his gay airs; all his jollity and mirth, that appeared in his face, were changed into paleness, sadness, and confusion: and his thoughts troubled him;
what should be the meaning of this; perhaps he might immediately fear it presaged ruin and destruction to him; the sins of his former life might at once come into his thoughts, and those particularly he had now been guilty of; his luxury and intemperance, his idolatry and profanation of the vessels of the sanctuary, which his conscience might accuse him of, and give him great distress and trouble: so that the joints of his loins were loosed;
or, "the girdles of his loins" ^F13; which were loosed or broke, through the agitation he was in; or he was all over in a sweat, so that he was obliged to loose his girdle; or, as persons in great fear and consternation, he was seized with a pain in his back; it opened as it were; nor could he hold his urine; as Grotius and others; see ( Isaiah 45:1 ) , where this seems to be prophesied of: and his knees smote one against another;
as is the case of persons in a great tremor, or under a panic. "Et subito genua intremuere timore".--Ovid.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (yhwyz) "splendores ejus", Montanus, Vatablus, Michaelis.
F13 (hurx yrjq) "cingula lumborum ejus", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius.

Daniel 5:6 In-Context

4 Ils burent du vin et ils louèrent les dieux d'or et d'argent, d'airain, de fer, de bois et de pierre.

5 A ce moment-là, on vit sortir les doigts d'une main d'homme, et ils écrivaient vis-à-vis du chandelier, sur l'enduit de la muraille du palais royal; et le roi vit cette partie de main qui écrivait.

6 Alors le roi changea de couleur, et ses pensées le troublèrent; les jointures de ses reins se relâchèrent, et ses genoux se heurtèrent l'un contre l'autre.

7 Le roi cria avec force qu'on fît venir les astrologues, les Caldéens et les devins. Le roi prit la parole et dit aux sages de Babylone: Quiconque lira cette écriture et m'en donnera l'interprétation sera revêtu de pourpre, il aura un collier d'or à son cou, et sera le troisième dans le gouvernement du royaume.

8 Alors les sages du roi entrèrent; mais ils ne purent lire l'écriture, ni en donner au roi l'interprétation.