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Dan 3:1 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.
We don’t really know when this happened, other than it was after Daniel’s companions were promoted to their positions of authority, which occurred after Daniel interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. We know this because we see that the other wise men make reference to their promotion in verse 12, and seem to be jealous of it.
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image
I have always assumed that this big statue was a likeness of Nebuchadnezzar himself, but Im not so sure it was. In no place does the text say that it was made to look like Nebuchadnezzar, instead it always uses the phrase: “the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up” this, or a similar phrase is said 8 times in this chapter. That is the only connection to Nebuchadnezzar it has, that is that it was “set up” by him. Continue reading “Daniel 3 – The Fiery Furnace Revisited”
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