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The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 5:5

The writing on the wall. We have here a declaration of judgment, the circumstances, form, and effects of which are full of significance. I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DECLARATION OF JUDGMENT . 1 . It was in the king ' s palace. The guards who may keep off the human intruder cannot shut out the Divine messenger. Judgment may find a man in his own home ( Isaiah 37:38 ; Daniel 4:29 ; Luke 12:16 ). 2 . It was at a time of pleasure. The intoxication of pleasure... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 5:5-17

The crisis of awaking. "Then was Daniel brought in before the king" (verse 13). In introducing the present subject the following features and incidents of the history need vivid and powerful setting: suddenness of the apparition—only fingers writing—in ancient Hebrew characters (same as those of the two Sinaitic tables)—on the plain plaster over against the candlestick—seen by its light—the effect upon the king, pale, trembling, sobered (he will not die drunk)—a great cry for help—why... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 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 smote one against another. The Septuagint differs in a somewhat important degree from the Massoretic text, "And his countenance was changed, and fears and thoughts troubled him." In this clause not improbably φόβοι and ὑπόνοιαι are double renderings of רעין . "And the king hasted and rose up, and looked at that writing, and his companions round about... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:5

In the same hour - On the word “hour,” see the note at Daniel 4:19.Came forth fingers of a man’s hand - Not the whole hand, but only the parts usually employed in writing. Not a man writing; not even an arm, but fingers that seemed to move themselves. They appeared to come forth from the walls, and were seen before they began to write. It was this that made it so impressive and alarming. It could not be supposed that it was the work of man, or that it was devised by man for the purpose of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 5:6

Then the king’s countenance was changed - The word rendered “countenance” is, in the margin, as in Daniel 5:9, “brightnesses.” The Chaldee word means “brightness, splendor” (זיו zı̂yv), and the meaning here is bright looks, cheerfulness, hilarity. The word rendered was changed, is in the margin changed it; and the meaning is, that it changed itself: probably from a jocund, cheerful, and happy expression, it assumed suddenly a deadly paleness.And his thoughts troubled him - Whether from the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 5:5-6

Daniel 5:5-6. In the same hour At the very time; came forth fingers of a man’s hand The likeness of a man’s hand; and wrote over against the candlestick The angel Gabriel, say the rabbins, directing this hand, and writing by it. Belshazzar seems to have filled up the measure of his iniquity, by this act of gross impiety and dishonour done to the true God. And the king saw It seems, first saw; the part of the hand that wrote It is probable this candlestick was a hanging sconce, near... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 5:1-31

Belshazzar’s feast (5:1-31)The events of this chapter took place in 539 BC. If Daniel was about fifteen years of age when taken captive to Babylon in 605 BC, he would now be over eighty. Nebuchadnezzar had long been dead. The present king, Nabonidus, was absent in distant territories for much of his reign, and the rule of the country was largely in the hands of his son Belshazzar. The queen who appears in the story (v. 10) was probably the queen mother, wife of Nabonidus. Nebuchadnezzar is... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 5:5

In the same hour = At the same moment. See note on "hour", Daniel 3:5 . man's . Chaldee ' enash . App-14 . candlestick = larnpstand. saw = was gazing on. the part = the end: i.e. the fingers. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 5:6

countenance = bright looks. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Daniel 5:5

"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. Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothesayers. The king spake and said unto the wise men of Babylon,... read more