31 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
31 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits
31 King Nebuchadnezzar built a gold statue, ninety feet high and nine feet thick. He set it up on the Dura plain in the province of Babylon.
31 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
31 King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet tall and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
30 Then the king promoted
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to even higher positions in the province of Babylon.
(Read Daniel 3:28-30)
What God did for these his servants, would help to keep the Jews to their religion while in captivity, and to cure them of idolatry. The miracle brought deep convictions on Nebuchadnezzar. But no abiding change then took place in his conduct. He who preserved these pious Jews in the fiery furnace, is able to uphold us in the hour of temptation, and to keep us from falling into sin.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Daniel 3:1
Commentary on Daniel 3:1-7
(Read Daniel 3:1-7)
In the height of the image, about thirty yards, probably is included a pedestal, and most likely it was only covered with plates of gold, not a solid mass of that precious metal. Pride and bigotry cause men to require their subjects to follow their religion, whether right or wrong, and when worldly interest allures, and punishment overawes, few refuse. This is easy to the careless, the sensual, and the infidel, who are the greatest number; and most will go their ways. There is nothing so bad which the careless world will not be drawn to by a concert of music, or driven to by a fiery furnace. By such methods, false worship has been set up and maintained.