Daniel 3:1

New Century Version

King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet high and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain of Dura in the area of Babylon.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

King Jeroboam asked for advice. Then he made two golden calves. “It is too long a journey for you to go to Jerusalem to worship,” he said to the people. “Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt.”

Esther 1:1

This is what happened during the time of King Xerxes, the king who ruled the one hundred twenty-seven states from India to Cush.

Psalm 135:15

The idols of other nations are made of silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Exodus 20:23

You must not use gold or silver to make idols for yourselves; do not worship these gods in addition to me.

Exodus 32:31

So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “How terribly these people have sinned! They have made for themselves gods from gold.

Isaiah 2:20

At that time people will throw away their gold and silver idols, which they made for themselves to worship; they will throw them away to the bats and moles.

Isaiah 30:22

You have statues covered with silver and gold, but you will ruin them for further use. You will throw them away like filthy rags and say, “Go away!”

Isaiah 46:6

Some people are rich with gold and weigh their silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god. Then they bow down and worship it.

Jeremiah 10:9

Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, so the idols are made by craftsmen and goldsmiths. They put blue and purple clothes on the idols. All these things are made by skilled workers.

Jeremiah 16:20

Can people make gods for themselves? They will not really be gods!”

Daniel 2:48

Then the king gave Daniel many gifts plus an important position in his kingdom. Nebuchadnezzar made him ruler over the whole area of Babylon and put him in charge of all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2:49

Daniel asked the king to make Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego leaders over the area of Babylon, so the king did as Daniel asked. Daniel himself became one of the people who stayed at the royal court.

Daniel 3:14

Nebuchadnezzar said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods nor worship the gold statue I have set up?

Daniel 3:30

Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the area of Babylon.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have set yourself against the Lord of heaven. You ordered the drinking cups from the Temple of the Lord to be brought to you. Then you and your royal guests, your wives, and your slave women drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that are not really gods; they cannot see or hear or understand anything. You did not honor God, who has power over your life and everything you do.

Daniel 5:4

As they were drinking, they praised their gods, which were made from gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Hosea 2:8

But she does not know that I was the one who gave her grain, new wine, and oil. I gave her much silver and gold, but she used it for Baal.

Hosea 8:4

They chose their own kings without asking my permission. They chose their own leaders, people I did not know. They made their silver and gold into idols, and for all this they will be destroyed.

Habakkuk 2:19

How terrible it will be for the one who says to a wooden statue, ‘Come to life!’ How terrible it will be for the one who says to a silent stone, ‘Get up!’ It cannot tell you what to do. It is only a statue covered with gold and silver; there is no life in it.

Acts 17:29

Since we are God’s children, you must not think that God is like something that people imagine or make from gold, silver, or rock.

Acts 19:26

But look at what this man Paul is doing. He has convinced and turned away many people in Ephesus and in almost all of Asia! He says the gods made by human hands are not real.

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn up their idols in the fire. Do not wish for the silver and gold they have, and don’t take it for yourselves, or you will be trapped by it. The Lord your God hates it.

Revelation 9:20

The other people who were not killed by these terrible disasters still did not change their hearts and turn away from what they had made with their own hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see or hear or walk.