Daniel 5:8 KJV — MannaFest

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.

KJV

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ASV

Then came in all the king’s wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

WEB

So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.

YLT

Then coming up are all the wise men of the king, and they are not able to read the writing, and the interpretation to make known to the king;

DBT

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

About this book

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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.

Author: Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
Date: Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2

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11 verses on the floor

Daniel 2:27
Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
Genesis 41:8
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Daniel 4:7
Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
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.
Daniel 4:18
This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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The interpretation of the mystical characters by Daniel, who was at length brought in to him, and dealt plainly with him, and showed him his doom written,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H35464× in canon H712311× in canon H379212× in canon H244514× in canon H595414× in canon H659131× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

DAN 5:8DAN 4:7 ISA 44:25
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
DAN 5:8DAN 5:15 DAN 5:7-8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
DAN 5:8GEN 41:8 DAN 4:7
DAN 5:8GEN 41:8 EXO 7:22
DAN 5:8GEN 41:8 DAN 4:5
DAN 5:8GEN 41:8 DAN 1:20
DAN 5:8DAN 5:15 ISA 47:12
DAN 5:8GEN 41:8 MAT 2:1

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