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At Belshazzar's feast the fingers of a man's hand write on the plaster of the palace wall: numbered, weighed, divided. That night, the text says, the king is slain and the kingdom passes to the Medes and Persians.
KJV (Daniel 5:5, 25–28): “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. … And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
The mechanism
THE WRITING ON THE WALL — numbered, weighed, and found wanting
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
- Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — Daniel 5:5, 25–28 (KJV, checked 19 September)
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