Daniel 5:5
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.
KJV
In eadem hora apparuerunt digiti, quasi manus hominis scribentis contra candelabrum in superficie parietis aulæ regiæ : et rex aspiciebat articulos manus scribentis.
Vulgate
ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐξῆλθον δάκτυλοι ὡσεὶ χειρὸς ἀνθρώπου καὶ ἔγραψαν ἐπὶ τοῦ τοίχου τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ κονιάματος κατέναντι τοῦ φωτὸς ἔναντι τοῦ βασιλέως Βαλτασάρ, καὶ εἶδε χεῖρα γράφουσαν.
LXX
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.
ASV
בַּ/הּ שַׁעֲתָ֗/ה נפקו נְפַ֨קָה֙ אֶצְבְּעָן֙ דִּ֣י יַד אֱנָ֔שׁ וְ/כָֽתְבָן֙ לָ/קֳבֵ֣ל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔/א עַל גִּירָ֕/א דִּֽי כְתַ֥ל הֵיכְלָ֖/א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑/א וּ/מַלְכָּ֣/א חָזֵ֔ה פַּ֥ס יְדָ֖/ה דִּ֥י כָתְבָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Thess 5:2 — For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
- Col 2:14 — Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
- Dan 4:31 — While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
- Dan 4:33 — The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ fe
- Dan 5:8 — Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
- Dan 5:15 — And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation
- Dan 5:24 — Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
- Dan 5:24 — Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
- Ezek 8:3 — And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door o
- Job 20:5 — That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- John 8:6 — This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
- Luke 12:19 — And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
- Prov 29:1 — He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Ps 78:30 — They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
- Ps 107:40 — He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Rev 20:12 — And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were writte