The Gold Idol and Blazing Furnace

3 King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ·ninety feet [^Lsixty cubits] high and ·nine feet [^Lsix cubits] wide [^Cunclear whether the statue was of Nebuchadnezzar or a Babylonian god like Marduk] and set it up on the plain of Dura [^Cfrom a Babylonian word meaning “wall” or “fortress”] in the ·area [^Lprovince] of Babylon. ² Then he ·called for the leaders: [^L…sent for] the ·governors [satraps], ·assistant governors [prefects], ·captains of the soldiers [governors], ·people who advised the king [counselors], ·keepers of the treasury [treasurers], ·judges [justices], ·rulers [magistrates], and all other officers ·in his kingdom [^Lof the provinces]. He wanted them to ·come [assemble] ·to the special service for [for the dedication of] the statue he had set up.