Daniel 5:27
Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 62:9 : 9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
- Job 31:6 : 6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
- Jer 6:30 : 30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
- Ezek 22:18-20 : 18 Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste. 19 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem. 20 As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.
- Matt 22:11-12 : 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe; 12 And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.
- 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.
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- Dan 5:22-265 verses88%
22 And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;
23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
24 Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded.
25 And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres.
26 This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.
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28 Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.
- Dan 5:5-62 verses72%
5 In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.
6 Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.
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31 While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:
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- Dan 2:36-372 verses70%
36 This is the dream; and we will make clear to the king the sense of it.
37 You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory,
- Mic 6:10-112 verses70%
10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
- Dan 2:28-325 verses70%
28 But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these:
29 As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come.
30 As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.
31 You, O King, were looking, and a great image was there. This image, which was very great, and whose glory was very bright, was placed before you: its form sent fear into the heart.
32 As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,
- Dan 5:14-152 verses69%
14 And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you.
15 And now the wise men, the users of secret arts, have been sent in before me for the purpose of reading this writing and making clear to me the sense of it: but they are not able to make clear the sense of the thing:
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6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land.
7 And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.
8 And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.
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24 This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king:
25 That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.
26 And as they gave orders to let the broken end and the roots of the tree be, so your kingdom will be safe for you after it is clear to you that the heavens are ruling.
27 For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
28 All this came to King Nebuchadnezzar.
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30 That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
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22 It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.
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1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
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11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
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13 O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.
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17 Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it.
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39 And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth.
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9 That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear.
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18 This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
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9 Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled and the colour went from his face, and his lords were at a loss.
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25 But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.
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13 But you, go on your way and take your rest: for you will be in your place at the end of the days.
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5 But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.
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23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
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5 The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.
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18 Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?
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10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
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19 And he said, See, I will make clear to you what is to come in the later time of the wrath: for it has to do with the fixed time of the end.
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28 Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.
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24 I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.