Daniel 5:27

American Standard Version (1901)

TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
  • Job 31:6 : 6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.
  • Ezek 22:18-20 : 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
  • Matt 22:11-12 : 11 But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment: 12 and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.
  • 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Dan 5:22-26
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    22And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this,

    23but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.

    24Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

    25And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

    26This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;

  • Dan 5:28
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    28PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

  • Dan 5:5-6
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    5In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

    6Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

  • Dan 4:31
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    31While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee:

  • Job 36:17
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    17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .

  • Dan 2:36-37
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    36This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

    37Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?

    11Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Dan 2:28-32
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    28but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:

    29as for thee, O king, thy thoughts came [into thy mind] upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and he that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.

    30But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that thou mayest know the thoughts of thy heart.

    31Thou, O king, sawest, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the aspect thereof was terrible.

    32As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,

  • Dan 5:14-15
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    14I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in thee.

    15And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

  • Zech 5:6-8
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    6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land

    7(and, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.

    8And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

  • Dan 4:24-28
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    24this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

    25that thou shalt be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen, and shalt be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee; till thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

    26And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.

    27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

    28All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

  • Dan 5:30
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    30In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

  • Dan 4:22
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    22it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

  • Prov 11:1
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    1A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.

  • Prov 16:11
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    11A just balance and scales are Jehovah's; All the weights of the bag are his work.

  • Deut 25:13
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    13Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

  • Jer 51:13
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    13O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

  • Dan 5:17
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    17Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

  • Dan 2:39
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    39And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

  • Dan 2:9
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    9But if ye make not known unto me the dream, there is but one law for you; for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me the interpretation thereof.

  • Dan 4:18
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    18This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation; but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

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    9Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

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    25But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

  • Dan 12:13
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    13But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest, and shalt stand in thy lot, at the end of the days.

  • Job 4:5
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    5But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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    23Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.

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    5The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

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    18Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed [the tribute] ? where is he that counted the towers?

  • Prov 20:10
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    10Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

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    19And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongeth to the appointed time of the end.

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    28Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

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    24I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.