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Daniel 5:26

Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

This is the interpretation of the thing,.... Or, "word" (z); for they might all seem as one word; or this is the sense of the whole:

MENE; as for this word, it signifies,

God hath numbered thy…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

This is the interpretation of the thing - It may seem not to have been difficult to interpret the meaning of the communication, when one was able to read the words, or when the sense of the words was…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Daniel 5:10-29

Here is, I. The information given to the king, by the queen-mother, concerning Daniel, how fit he was to be consulted in this difficult case. It is supposed that this queen was the widow of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

finished it completed it, given it its full and complete measure of time. Cp. the cognate adj. in Gen 15:16 (-full," -complete").