# Daniel 5:27

> TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

— Daniel 5:27, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 539 BC (counted from the text)
- Date source: Daniel 5 tells of the night, not the year. The Cyrus Cylinder and the Nabonidus Chronicle date the fall of Babylon to October 539 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Belshazzar**, king of Babylon, 553-539 BC · Source: The Nabonidus Chronicle and the tablets that name Belshazzar as son and co-regent. The co-regency explains why, in Daniel 5:7 and 5:29, the reward is *third* place in the kingdom and not second.
- **Cyrus the Great**, king of Persia, 559-530 BC · Source: Cyrus Cylinder (British Museum), which records the policy of sending peoples and their cults back to their own lands; Herodotus I

## See also

- Job 31:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/31/6
- Psalms 62:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/62/9
- 1 Corinthians 3:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/3/13
- Jeremiah 6:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/6/30
- Ezekiel 22:18-20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/22/18
- Matthew 22:11-12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/22/11

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5/27
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).