Daniel 5:8

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Tetapi semua orang bijaksana dari raja, yang telah datang menghadap, tidak sanggup membaca tulisan itu dan tidak sanggup memberitahukan maknanya kepada raja.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi semua orang bijaksana dari raja, yang telah datang menghadap, tidak sanggup membaca tulisan itu dan tidak sanggup memberitahukan maknanya kepada raja.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka datanglah segala orang alim baginda, tetapi tiada mereka itu dapat membaca suratan itu atau memberitahu baginda artinya.

Contextual Overview

¹ King Balthasar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes, and dranke wine before the thousande. ² And Balthasar when he had tasted the wine, commaunded to bring hym the golden and siluer vessels, whiche his father Nabuchodonozor had brought from the temple in Hierusalem, that the king and his princes, and his wyues, and his concubines, might drinke therin. ³ So were brought the golde vessels that they had taken out of the temple of the Lordes house at Hierusalem: and the king, and his princes, his wyues, and his concubines drunke in them. ⁴ They drunke wine, & praysed the gods of golde, siluer, brasse, iron, wood, and stone. ⁵ In the very same houre there appeared fingers of a mans hande wryting right ouer against the candlesticke vpon the plaster of the wall of the kinges palace, and the king sawe the knockles of the hande that wrote. ⁶ Then chaunged the king his countenaunce, & his thoughtes troubled hym, so that the ioyntes of his loynes were loosed, and his knees smote one against the other. ⁷ Wherfore the king cryed mightyly, that they should bring the soothsayers, Chaldees, & wysardes: the king spake also to the wise men of Babylon, & said, Who so can reade this wryting, & shewe me the interpretation thereof, shalbe clothed with purple, and haue a cheyne of golde about his necke, and shalbe the third ruler in the kingdome. ⁸ Upon this came al the kinges wise men, but they coulde neither reade the wryting, nor shewe the king the interpretation. ⁹ Then was king Balthasar greatly troubled, and his countenaunce was chaunged in him, and his princes were astonied.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

but: Because, probably, it was written in the ancient Hebrew or Samaritan character. Daniel 2:27, Daniel 4:7, Genesis 41:8, Isaiah 47:9, Isaiah 47:12-15

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:18 - they could Isaiah 41:28 - I beheld Isaiah 47:13 - Let now Jeremiah 50:35 - her wise men Daniel 1:20 - the magicians Daniel 2:4 - tell Daniel 4:18 - forasmuch Daniel 5:5 - wrote Daniel 5:15 - General Colossians 2:14 - the handwriting

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came in all the king's wise men,.... The whole college of them, the persons before described; over whom, in Nebuchadnezzar's time, Daniel was the chief of the governors, Daniel 2:48, these came in readily, in hope of getting both riches and honour:

but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof; for if they could not do the former, it must be impossible to do the latter; of the reason of which, various are the conjectures p: as that, though these words were written in Chaldee, yet in characters, as the Samaritan or Phoenician, they did not understand; or were written without points, and so they knew not which were the proper ones to put to them; or they were written according to the position of the letters of the alphabet, called "athbash", of which

Daniel 2:48- :, or the words were placed so as to be read backward, or else downward, and not straightforward; or they were all in one word; or only the initial letters of words; but the true reason was, that it was so ordained by the Lord, that they should not be able to read and interpret them; this being reserved for another man, Daniel, that he might have the honour, and God the glory.

p Vid. Jac. de Clerice Dissertat. de Epulo Belshazzar, in Thesaur. Theolog. Philol. vol. 1. p. 885.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then came in all the king’s wise men - The classes above referred to, Daniel 5:7.

But they could not read the writing - The character was an unknown character to them. It may have been a character which was not found in any language, and which made the power of Daniel to read it the more remarkable, or it may have been, as suggested in the notes at Daniel 5:7, a foreign character with which they had no acquaintance, though familiar to Daniel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 5:8. They could not read the writing — Because it was in the pure Hebrew, not the Chaldean character. See below.