Daniel 5:5

Modern English Version

Immediately fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. And the king saw the back of the hand that wrote.

Cross References

Job 20:5

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

Proverbs 29:1

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands were feeble. Anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in labor.

Daniel 4:31

While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven: “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you!

Daniel 4:33

Immediately the thing was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven until his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel 5:15

Now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not give the interpretation of the matter.

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Daniel 5:6

Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck against one another.

Daniel 5:8

Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king its interpretation.

Colossians 2:14

He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us and contrary to us, and He took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.