Daniel 5:4-5

5:4 As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

5:5 At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.


tn Aram “came forth.”

sn The mention of the lampstand in this context is of interest because it suggests that the writing was in clear view.

tn While Aramaic פַּס (pas) can mean the palm of the hand, here it seems to be the back of the hand that is intended.