Daniel Chapter 5 Verses 5-6

5 Immediately the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand; and the king saw the hand as it wrote. 6 Then the king’s color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

No trumpet blast, no earthquake, no fanfare. Just the fingers of a hand that appeared, wrote four words (2 of which were identical), and then vanished – leaving only the words on the wall.

Everything stopped as the king gazed at the words. His color changed, his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

The ‘color’ or ‘countenance’ in verse 6 literally means ‘brightness.’ That is, his bright looks, his cheerfulness, and his hilarity changed.

One commentator has written:

Belshazzar had as much of power and of drink withal to lead him to bid defiance to God as any ruffian under heaven; and yet when God, as it were, lifted up his finger against him, how poorly did he crouch and shiver. How did his joints loose, and his knees knock together!

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