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Dan. 3:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Nebuchadnezzar the king madeh an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

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2 Kings 19:17‑18• ¹⁷{i}Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,{/i}
¹⁸{i}and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore have they destroyed them.{/i} (2 Kings 19:17‑18)

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Psa. 115:4• ⁴Their idols [are] silver and gold,{HR}Work of hands of man. (Psa. 115:4)

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Isa. 40:19• ¹⁹The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. (Isa. 40:19)

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Jer. 16:20• ²⁰Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? (Jer. 16:20)

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Acts 19:26• ²⁶And ye behold and hear that this Paul hath persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying that they are no gods that are made by hands. (Acts 19:26)

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Babylon,

Dura,

Gold,

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Nebuchadnezzar; Nebuchadrezzar,

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-7: Nebuchadnezzar dedicates a golden image in Dura.

8-12: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are accused for not worshipping the image.

13-18: They being threatened, make a good confession.

19-23: They are cast into the furnace,

24-27: from which God delivers them.

28-30: Nebuchadnezzar seeing the miracle blesses God, and advances them.

A.M. 3424.

B.C. 580.

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Dan. 2:31‑32• ³¹Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
³²This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, (Dan. 2:31‑32)

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Dan. 5:23• ²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; {i}and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know;{/i} and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified. (Dan. 5:23)

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Ex. 20:23• ²³{i}Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold.{/i} (Ex. 20:23)

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Ex. 32:2‑4,31• ²{i}And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings that are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.{/i}
³{i}Then all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.{/i}
⁴{i}And he took them out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!{/i}
³¹{i}And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Alas, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves a god of gold!{/i} (Ex. 32:2‑4,31)

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Deut. 7:25• ²⁵{i}The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver and gold that is on them and take it unto thee, lest thou be ensnared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.{/i} (Deut. 7:25)

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Judg. 8:26‑27• ²⁶{i}And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the moons, and eardrops, and the purple garments that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.{/i}
²⁷{i}And Gideon made an ephod of them,{/i} and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house. (Judg. 8:26‑27)

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1 Kings 12:28• ²⁸Whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. (1 Kings 12:28)

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2 Kings 19:17‑18• ¹⁷{i}Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,{/i}
¹⁸{i}and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore have they destroyed them.{/i} (2 Kings 19:17‑18)

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Psa. 115:4‑8• ⁴Their idols [are] silver and gold,{HR}Work of hands of man.
⁵A mouth have they, and they speak not;{HR}Eyes have they, and they see not;
⁶Ears they have, and they hear not;{HR}A nose have they, and they smell not;
⁷They have hands, and they feel not;{HR}They have feet, and they walk not;{HR}They utter not with their throat.
⁸Like them are those making them,{HR}Every one who confideth in them. (Psa. 115:4‑8)

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Psa. 135:15• ¹⁵Idols of the nations [are] silver and gold,{HR}Works of man's hands. (Psa. 135:15)

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Isa. 2:20• ²⁰In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (Isa. 2:20)

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Isa. 30:22• ²²And ye shall defile the silver covering of thy graven images, and the gold overlaying of thy molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; Out! shalt thou say unto it. (Isa. 30:22)

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Isa. 40:19‑31• ¹⁹The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
²⁰He that [is] impoverished so that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image [that] shall not be moved.
²¹Do ye not know? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?
²²[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a veil, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
²³that bringeth the princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
²⁴Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
²⁵To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
²⁶Lift up your eyes on high, and behold. Who hath created these [things], bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and strength of power, not one faileth.
²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
²⁸Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [There is] no searching of his understanding.
²⁹He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.
³⁰Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall stumble and fall;
³¹but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. (Isa. 40:19‑31)

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Isa. 46:6• ⁶Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; they fall down, yea, they worship. (Isa. 46:6)

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Jer. 10:9• ⁹{i}Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful men.{/i} (Jer. 10:9)

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Jer. 16:20• ²⁰Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? (Jer. 16:20)

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Hos. 8:4• ⁴They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cast off. (Hos. 8:4)

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Hab. 2:19• ¹⁹Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. (Hab. 2:19)

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Acts 17:29• ²⁹Being therefore God's off-spring, we ought not to think that the divinity is like gold, or silver or stone, graven by art and device of man. (Acts 17:29)

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Acts 19:26• ²⁶And ye behold and hear that this Paul hath persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying that they are no gods that are made by hands. (Acts 19:26)

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Rev. 9:20• ²⁰And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood which can neither see nor hear nor walk; (Rev. 9:20)

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Dan. 3:30• ³⁰{i}Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the province of Babylon{/i}. (Dan. 3:30)

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Dan. 2:48• ⁴⁸{i}Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.{/i} (Dan. 2:48)

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Esther 1:1• ¹And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus who reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces)— (Esther 1:1)

• We are now permitted to see the use which the Gentiles will make of the power entrusted to them in responsibility....he used the power that God gave him to deny God and to put himself in the place of God, although this feature is subsequently expressed in a still more distinct form. (“Daniel 3” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

W. Kelly Translation

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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)