Daniel 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.”

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Daniel 5:8 Context

⁵In 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. ⁶Then 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. ⁷The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. ⁸Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. ⁹Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. ¹⁰Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: ¹¹There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

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Translation Details for Daniel 5:8

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Other Translations for Daniel 5:8

Then came in all the kings wise men, but they could not reade the writing, nor make knowen to the king the interpretation thereof.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
- American Standard Version (1901)

Then all the king's wise men came in: but they were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king.
- Basic English Bible

So all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
- Darby Bible

Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
- English Revised Version

Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
- World English Bible

Bible Commentary for Daniel 5:8

Wesley's Notes for Daniel 5:8

5:6 His knees smote - So soon can the terrors of God make the loftiest cedars, the tyrants of the earth.

5:10 The queen came - The women in those courts had an apartment by themselves, and this being the queen - mother, and aged, did not mingle herself with the king's wives and concubines, yet she broke the rule in coming in now, upon this solemn occasion.

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