Daniel 5:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.

Daniel 5:24 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-29)

Here is, I. The information given to the king, by the queen-mother, concerning Daniel, how fit he was to be consulted in this difficult case. It is supposed that this queen was the widow of Evil-Merodach, and was that famous Nitocris whom Herodotus mentions as a woman of extraordinary prudence. She was not present at the feast, as the king’s wives and concubines were (Dan. 5:2); it was not agreeab…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. Then--When thou liftedst up thyself against the Lord. the part of the hand--the fore part, the fingers. was ... sent from him--that is, from God.