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Dedicating the Image to Nebuchadnezzar

Some time later, king Nebuchadnezzar built a golden statue, making it 60 cubits[a] high and six cubits[b] wide. He set it up in the Dura Valley[c] within the province of Babylon. Then King Nebuchadnezzar summoned the regional authorities,[d] governors, deputy governors, advisors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all of the other[e] administrators of the provinces, ordering them to come to the dedication of the statue that he[f] had erected.

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  1. Daniel 3:1 I.e. about 90 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  2. Daniel 3:1 I.e. about nine feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  3. Daniel 3:1 Or Plain
  4. Daniel 3:2 Or satraps
  5. Daniel 3:2 The Aram. lacks other
  6. Daniel 3:2 Lit. Nebuchadnezzar

The Image of Gold and the Blazing Furnace

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. He then summoned the satraps,(B) prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials(C) to come to the dedication of the image he had set up.

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