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"Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" is a Biblical expression that originates from the Book of Daniel, from the handwriting on the wall that was witnessed at a banquet hosted by King Belshazzar of Babylon. As those at the feast profaned the sacred vessels pillaged from the Jerusalem Temple, a disembodied hand appeared and wrote on the palace wall the words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin". The prophet Daniel was summoned and interpreted this message as the imminent end for the Babylonian kingdom. That night, Belshazzar was killed and the Persians sacked the capital city.

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  • "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" is a Biblical expression that originates from the Book of Daniel, from the handwriting on the wall that was witnessed at a banquet hosted by King Belshazzar of Babylon. As those at the feast profaned the sacred vessels pillaged from the Jerusalem Temple, a disembodied hand appeared and wrote on the palace wall the words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin". The prophet Daniel was summoned and interpreted this message as the imminent end for the Babylonian kingdom. That night, Belshazzar was killed and the Persians sacked the capital city.
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  • "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" is a Biblical expression that originates from the Book of Daniel, from the handwriting on the wall that was witnessed at a banquet hosted by King Belshazzar of Babylon. As those at the feast profaned the sacred vessels pillaged from the Jerusalem Temple, a disembodied hand appeared and wrote on the palace wall the words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin". The prophet Daniel was summoned and interpreted this message as the imminent end for the Babylonian kingdom. That night, Belshazzar was killed and the Persians sacked the capital city. During the drunken feast that witnessed the incident, Belshazzar uses the holy golden and silver vessels, from Solomon's Temple, to praise "the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone". Soon afterwards, disembodied fingers appear and write on the wall of the royal palace the words: "מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין:Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" The advisers attempt to interpret the meaning. However, their natural denotations of weights and measures were superficially meaningless: "two minas, a shekel and two parts". Therefore, the King sends for Daniel, an exiled Judahite taken from Jerusalem, who had served in high office under Nebuchadnezzar. Rejecting offers of reward, Daniel warns the king of the folly of his arrogant blasphemy before reading the text. The meaning that Daniel decrypts from these words is based on passive verbs corresponding to the measure names, "numbered, weighed, divided." Other interpretations also include, "You have been weighed and found wanting."
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