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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, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed 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 they have 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 melteth 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• ²⁶Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be 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 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 his 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; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, 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 with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. (Ex. 20:23)

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Ex. 32:2‑4,31• ²And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
³And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
⁴And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
³¹And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods 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 desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord 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 and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.
²⁷And Gideon made an ephod thereof, 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• ¹⁷Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed 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 they have 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 mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
⁶They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
⁷They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
⁸They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. (Psa. 115:4‑8)

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

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

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Isa. 30:22• ²²Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. (Isa. 30:22)

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Isa. 40:19‑31• ¹⁹The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
²⁰He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
²¹Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations 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 curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
²³That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
²⁴Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take 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, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
²⁸Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, 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 utterly fall:
³¹But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isa. 40:19‑31)

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Isa. 46:6• ⁶They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and 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 workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning 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, 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• ²⁹Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. (Acts 17:29)

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Acts 19:26• ²⁶Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: (Acts 19:26)

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Rev. 9:20• ²⁰And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can 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 a great man, 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• ¹Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty 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.