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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• ¹⁷Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
¹⁸and 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. (2 Kings 19:17‑18)

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Psa. 115:4• ⁴Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands: (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 for it. (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 see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great crowd, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying that they are no gods which are made with hands. (Acts 19:26)

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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 image was mighty and its brightness excellent; it stood before thee, and its appearance was terrible.
³²This image's head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass, (Dan. 2:31‑32)

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Dan. 5:23• ²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; 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; 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• ²³Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold. (Ex. 20:23)

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Ex. 32:2‑4,31• ²And 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.
³Then all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
⁴And 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!
³¹And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Alas, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves a god of gold! (Ex. 32:2‑4,31)

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Deut. 7:25• ²⁵The 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. (Deut. 7:25)

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Judg. 8:26‑27• ²⁶And 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.
²⁷And Gideon made an ephod of them, and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel went thither a whoring after it; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house. (Judg. 8:26‑27)

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

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2 Kings 19:17‑18• ¹⁷Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
¹⁸and 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. (2 Kings 19:17‑18)

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Psa. 115:4‑8• ⁴Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:
⁵They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not;
⁶They have ears, and they hear not; a nose have they, and they smell not;
⁷They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and they walk not; they give no sound through their throat.
⁸They that make them are like unto them,--every one that confideth in them. (Psa. 115:4‑8)

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Psa. 135:15• ¹⁵The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands: (Psa. 135:15)

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Isa. 2:20• ²⁰In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made each for himself 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 your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your 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 for it.
²⁰He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering, chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
²¹--Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?
²²It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, 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 see! Who hath created these things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth.
²⁷Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away 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 nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.
²⁹He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
³⁰Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, 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 tire; they shall walk, and not faint. (Isa. 40:19‑31)

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Isa. 46:6• ⁶--They 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• ⁹Silver 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. (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 cut 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! Shall it teach? Behold it is overlaid 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 the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination. (Acts 17:29)

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Acts 19:26• ²⁶and ye see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great crowd, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying that they are no gods which are made with hands. (Acts 19:26)

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

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

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Dan. 2:48• ⁴⁸Then 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. (Dan. 2:48)

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Esther 1:1• ¹And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (that is, the Ahasuerus that reigned from India even to 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.