14 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up?

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“Declare among the nations,
Proclaim, and [a]set up a standard;
Proclaim—do not conceal it
Say, ‘Babylon is (A)taken, (B)Bel is shamed.
[b]Merodach is broken in pieces;
(C)Her idols are humiliated,
Her images are broken in pieces.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:2 lift
  2. Jeremiah 50:2 Or Marduk; a Babylonian god

The Image of Gold

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was [a]sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 3:1 About 90 feet

Dead Idols and the Living God

46 Bel (A)bows down, Nebo stoops;
Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle.
Your carriages were heavily loaded,
(B)A burden to the weary beast.

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But at last Daniel came before me (A)(his name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god; (B)in him is the Spirit of the Holy God), and I told the dream before him, saying:

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13 However, (A)if he did not lie in wait, but God (B)delivered him into his hand, then (C)I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

14 “But if a man acts with (D)premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, (E)you shall take him from My altar, that he may die.

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