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Daniel 5:27
Daniel 5:27 is verse 27 of Daniel chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed.
King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
World English Bible
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
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Daniel 5:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
26 And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
27 TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 31:6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Jeremiah 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
Ezekiel 22:19Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:20Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
Matthew 22:12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
1 Corinthians 3:13his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.