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11 Bible verses about the Handwriting on the Wall KJV
A king threw a feast with the temple vessels and a hand appeared and wrote four words on the plaster. Daniel read them and the king died that night. These verses cover Daniel 5.
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Daniel 5:1 · KJV
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Daniel 5:5 · KJV
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Daniel 5:6 · KJV
Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Daniel 5:17 · KJV
Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
Daniel 5:22 · KJV
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
Daniel 5:23 · KJV
But 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 in 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:
Daniel 5:25 · KJV
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
Daniel 5:26 · KJV
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
Daniel 5:27 · KJV
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Daniel 5:28 · KJV
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Daniel 5:30 · KJV
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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