Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
`Then from before Him sent is the extremity of the hand, and the writing is noted down;
then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.
Daniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Daniel 5:5At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
leads to
While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.
Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Voices2
Then was the part of the hand sent from him,.... That is, from God: being thus reproached and blasphemed, at that very instant, and for that reason, because the vessels of his sanctuary were profaned, and idol gods were praised, and he despised; he caused part of a hand, the writing fingers of it, to appear on the wall of the king's palace: and this writing was written; which was then upon the wall, and he points to it.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Then was the part of the hand sent - This was the filling up of the cup of thy iniquity; this last act made thee ripe for destruction.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The verses this one reaches3
At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
