Daniel 5:26

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“This <FI>is<Fi> the interpretation of the thing: Numbered--God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Daniel 5:26 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
  2. Isaiah 13:1This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
  3. Isaiah 21:1This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
  4. Isaiah 47:1“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
  5. Jeremiah 25:11And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
  6. Jeremiah 25:12But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
  7. Jeremiah 27:7All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
  8. Jeremiah 50:1This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:
  9. Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
  10. Acts 15:18that have been known for ages.’

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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