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The writing on the wall

Daniel 5The feast · The hand · The weighed kingdom

The writing on the wall in one plate: Sacred vessels used at the royal feast; Fingers write on the plaster wall; Daniel reads and explains the words; Belshazzar falls Darius receives the kingdom.
  1. 1 Sacred vessels used at the royal feast
    Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. — Daniel 5:1–4 · WEB
    In the commentary Belshazzar's Feast
  2. 2 Fingers write on the plaster wall
    In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw… — Daniel 5:5–12 · WEB
    In the commentary Fingers of a Man's Hand The Queen Remembers Daniel
  3. 3 Daniel reads and explains the words
    Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom… — Daniel 5:13–28 · WEB
    In the commentary The Queen Remembers Daniel You Have Not Humbled Your Heart Weighed in the Balances
  4. 4 Belshazzar falls Darius receives the kingdom
    Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he… — Daniel 5:29–31 · WEB
    In the commentary In That Night

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