Daniel 5:5 “At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the p…”

Daniel 5:5

At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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 the part of the hand that wrote.

American Standard Version

In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Geneva Bible 1599

At 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.

Darby Translation

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Young's Literal Translation

In that hour come forth have fingers of a man's hand, and they are writing over-against the candlestick, on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king is seeing the extremity of the hand that is writing;

Bible in Basic English

In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.

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Cross references

“the same”

Daniel 4:31 Job 20:5 Daniel 4:33 Proverbs 29:1 Psalm 78:30 Psalm 78:31

Daniel 4:31 · BSB

While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.

Job 20:5 · BSB

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Daniel 4:33 · BSB

At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an ea…

Proverbs 29:1 · BSB

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

Psalm 78:30 · BSB

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Psalm 78:31 · BSB

God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

“wrote”

Daniel 5:24–28 Colossians 2:14 Daniel 5:8 Daniel 5:15 Revelation 20:12–15

Daniel 5:24–28 · BSB

Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

Colossians 2:14 · BSB

having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

Daniel 5:8 · BSB

So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.

Daniel 5:15 · BSB

Now the wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this inscription and interpret it for me, but they could not give its interpretation.

Revelation 20:12–15 · BSB

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

6his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

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