Daniel 3:1

Nebuchadnezzar sets up a colossal golden image, demanding it be honored. It marks a turn from his earlier confession of God toward state-enforced idolatry.

Cross-references · 25

• Hab 2:19Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
• Jer 16:20Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
• Isa 46:6They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
• Hos 8:4They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
• Isa 40:19–31To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
• Acts 19:26And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
• Acts 17:29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
• Ps 135:15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• 1 Kgs 12:28After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• 2 Kgs 19:17–18Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
• Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
• Exod 20:23You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
• Deut 7:25You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
• Exod 32:31So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.
• Dan 2:31–32As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.
• Dan 2:48Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.
• Exod 32:2–4So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
• Jer 10:9Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
• Dan 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
• Isa 30:22So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
• Rev 9:20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
• Judg 8:26–27The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
• Dan 3:30Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
• Esth 1:1This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

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