The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Daniel 5: 24 then was the palm of the hand sent from before Him, and this writing was inscribed.
Daniel 5: 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.
Daniel 5: 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.
Daniel 5: 27 TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Daniel 5: 28 PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'
Daniel 5: 29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should rule as one of three in the kingdom.
Daniel 5: 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
Daniel 5: 31 (6:1) And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Daniel 6: 1 (6:2) It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
Daniel 6: 2 (6:3) and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage.
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