Daniel 5:26

26 This is the interpretation of the matter: M ene, God has numbered^[a] the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

Daniel 5:26 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 5:26

This is the interpretation of the thing
Or, "word" ^F26; 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 kingdom, and finished it;
God had fixed the number of years, how long that monarchy should last, which he was now at the head of, and which was foretold, ( Jeremiah 25:1 Jeremiah 25:11 Jeremiah 25:12 ) ( 27:7 ) , and also the number of years that he should reign over it; and both these numbers were now completed; for that very night Belshazzar was slain, and the kingdom translated to another people: and a dreadful thing it is to be numbered to the sword, famine, and pestilence, or any sore judgment of God for sin, as sometimes men are; so more especially to be appointed to everlasting wrath, and to be numbered among transgressors, among the devils and damned in hell.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (atlm) "sermonis", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "verborum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Broughtonus; "verbi", Cocceius; "illius verbi", Michaelis.

Daniel 5:26 In-Context

24 “Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed.

25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: M ene, M ene, T ekel, and P arsin.

26 This is the interpretation of the matter: M ene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

27 T ekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

28 P eres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. ”

Footnotes

• [a] 5:26 Menesounds like the Aramaic for 'numbered'