Daniel 5:27

Geneva Bible (1560)

Tekel, thou art wayed in the balance, and art found too light.

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  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
  • Job 31:6 : 6 Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shal know mine vprightnes.
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 They shall call them reprobate siluer, because the Lord hath reiected them.
  • Ezek 22:18-20 : 18 Sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse: all they are brasse, and tinne, and yron, and leade in the mids of the fornace: they are euen the drosse of siluer. 19 Therefore, thus sayth the Lorde God, Because ye are all as drosse, beholde, therefore I will gather you in the middes of Ierusalem. 20 As they gather siluer and brasse, and yron, and leade, and tinne into the middes of the fornace, to blowe the fire vpon it to melt it, so wil I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and wil put you there and melt you.
  • Matt 22:11-12 : 11 Then the King came in, to see the ghestes, and sawe there a man which had not on a wedding garment. 12 And he sayd vnto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, and hast not on a wedding garment? And he was speachlesse.
  • 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 Euery mans worke shalbe made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shalbe reueiled by the fire: and the fire shall trie euery mans worke of what sort it is.

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  • Dan 5:22-26
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    22And thou his sonne, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all these things,

    23But hast lift thy selfe vp against the Lorde of heauen, and they haue brought the vessels of his House before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wiues and thy concubines haue drunke wine in them, and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse, yron, wood and stone, which neither see, neither heare, nor vnderstand: and the God in whose hand thy breath is and all thy wayes, him hast thou not glorified.

    24Then was the palme of the hand sent from him, and hath written this writing.

    25And this is the writing that he hath written, Mene, Mene, Tekel Vpharsin.

    26This is the interpretation of the thing, Mene, God hath nombred thy kingdome, and hath finished it.

  • Dan 5:28
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    28Peres, thy kingdome is deuided, and giuen to the Medes and Persians.

  • Dan 5:5-6
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    5At the same houre appeared fingers of a mans hand, which wrote ouer against the candlesticke vpon the plaister of the wall of ye Kings palace, and the King sawe the palme of the hand that wrote.

    6Then the Kings countenance was changed, and his thoughtes troubled him, so that the ioynts of his loynes were loosed, and his knees smote one against the other.

  • Dan 4:31
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    31(4:28) While the worde was in the Kings mouth, a voyce came downe from heauen, saying, O King Nebuchad-nezzar, to thee be it spoken, Thy kingdome is departed from thee,

  • Job 36:17
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    17But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things.

  • Dan 2:36-37
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    36This is the dreame, and we will declare before the King the interpretation thereof.

    37O King, thou art a king of Kings: for the God of heauen hath giuen thee a kingdome, power, and strength, and glorie.

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

    11Shall I iustifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weightes?

  • Dan 2:28-32
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    28But there is a God in heauen that reueileth secrets, and sheweth the King Nebuchad-nezzar what shall bee in the latter dayes. Thy dreame, and the things which thou hast seene in thine heade vpon thy bed, is this.

    29O King, when thou wast in thy bedde, thoughts came into thy mind, what should come to passe hereafter, and he that reueyleth secretes, telleth thee, what shall come.

    30As for me, this secret is not shewed mee for any wisedome that I haue, more then any other liuing, but onely to shewe the King the interpretation, and that thou mightest knowe the thoughts of thine heart.

    31O King, thou sawest, and beholde, there was a great image: this great image whose glory was so excellent, stood before thee, & the forme thereof was terrible.

    32This images head was of fine golde, his breast and his armes of siluer, his bellie and his thighs of brasse,

  • Dan 5:14-15
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    14Now I haue heard of thee, that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and that light and vnderstanding and excellent wisdome is found in thee.

    15Now therefore, wisemen and astrologians haue bene brought before me, that they should reade this writing, and shewe me the interpretation thereof: but they could not declare the interpretation of the thing.

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    6And I saide, What is it? And hee sayde, This is an Ephah that goeth foorth. Hee saide moreouer, This is the sight of them through all the earth.

    7And beholde, there was lift vp a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the middes of the Ephah.

    8And he said, This is wickednes, and he cast it into the middes of the Ephah, and hee cast the weight of lead vpon the mouth thereof.

  • Dan 4:24-28
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    24(4:21) This is the interpretation, O King, and it is the decree of the most High, which is come vpon my lord the King,

    25(4:22) That they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beasts of the fielde: they shall make thee to eate grasse as the oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dewe of heauen: and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, till thou knowe, that the most High beareth rule ouer the kingdome of men, and giueth it to whom so euer he will.

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    27(4:24) Wherefore, O King, let my counsell be acceptable vnto thee, and breake off thy sinnes by righteousnes, and thine iniquities by mercy toward the poore: lo, let there be an healing of thine errour.

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    30The same night was Belshazzar the King of the Caldeans slaine.

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    22(4:19) It is thou, O King, that art great and mightie: for thy greatnesse is growen, and reacheth vnto heauen, and thy dominion to the endes of the earth.

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  • Prov 16:11
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    11A true weight & balance are of the Lord: all the weightes of the bagge are his worke.

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    13Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of weightes, a great and a small,

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    13O thou that dwellest vpon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine ende is come, euen the ende of thy couetousnes.

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