Daniel 5:4

At Belshazzar's feast the guests drink from the temple vessels while praising lifeless idols. It is open contempt for the true God whose holy objects are being defiled.

Cross-references · 16

• 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.
• 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.”
• Ps 135:15–18The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• Rev 9:20–21Now 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.
• Isa 40:19–20To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• Jer 10:4–9They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.
• Isa 42:8I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
• Isa 46:6–7They 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.
• 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.
• Judg 16:23–24Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
• Dan 3:1–18King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
• Isa 42:17But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.
• Hos 2:8–13For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
• Acts 19:24–28It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis, bringing much business to the craftsmen.

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