Daniel 5:4

New English Translation

As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Cross References

1 Kings 1:49

All of Adonijah’s guests panicked; they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

Isaiah 42:17

Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”

Isaiah 42:8

I am the Lord! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols.

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

Daniel 5:3

So they brought the gold and silver vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.

Daniel 5:5

At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.

Amos 6:7

Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.

Habakkuk 2:19

The one who says to wood, ‘Wake up!’ is as good as dead – he who says to speechless stone, ‘Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it.

Acts 17:29

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.