Judges 8:27

New International Version

²⁷Gideon made the gold into an ephod,^(A) which he placed in Ophrah,^(B) his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare^(C) to Gideon and his family.^(D)

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Ezekiel 7:20-21

New International Version

²⁰They took pride in their beautiful jewelry
    and used it to make^(A) their detestable idols.
They made it into vile images;^(B)
    therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.^(C)
²¹I will give their wealth as plunder^(D) to foreigners
    and as loot to the wicked of the earth,
    who will defile it.^(E)

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Jeremiah 10:4

New International Version

⁴They adorn it with silver^(A) and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.^(B)

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Jeremiah 10:9

New International Version

⁹Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish^(A)
    and gold from Uphaz.
What the craftsman and goldsmith have made^(B)
    is then dressed in blue and purple—
    all made by skilled workers.

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Daniel 3:1

New International Version

The Image of Gold and the Blazing Furnace

3 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image^(A) of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide,^[a] and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

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Footnotes

Daniel 3:1 That is, about 90 feet high and 9 feet wide or about 27 meters high and 2.7 meters wide

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Daniel 5:23

New International Version

²³Instead, you have set yourself up against^(A) the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives^(B) and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.^(C) But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life^(D) and all your ways.^(E)