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 5:23But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
• Hab 2:19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
• Ps 135:15–18The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Rev 9:20–21And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
• Isa 40:19–20The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Jer 10:4–9They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
• Isa 42:8I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
• Isa 46:6–7They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
• Acts 17:29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
• Judg 16:23–24Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
• Dan 3:1–18Nebuchadnezzar 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.
• Dan 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Isa 42:17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
• Hos 2:8–13For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
• Acts 19:24–28For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

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