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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 5:27 - 5:27
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weighed in the balances - The Egyptians thought that Osiris weighed the actions of the dead in a literal balance. The Babylonians may have had the same notion, which would give a peculiar appropriateness to the image here used.
found wanting - too light before God, the weigher of actions (1Sa 2:3; Psa 62:9). Like spurious gold or silver (Jer 6:30).