¹Nebuchadnezzar the king made an ^aimage of gold, the height of which was sixty ¹cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the ^bprovince of Babylon.

²Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent word to assemble the ^asatraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

³Then the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

⁴Then the herald loudly proclaimed: “To you ¹the command is given, ^aO peoples, nations and men of every ²language,

⁵that at the moment you ^ahear the sound of the horn, flute, ¹lyre, ²trigon, ³psaltery, bagpipe and all kinds of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

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Footnotes

1I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.
1Lit they command
2Lit tongue
1Or zither
2I.e. triangular lyre
3Or a type of harp

Cross references

a 1 Kin 12:28; Is 46:6; Jer 16:20; Dan 2:31; Hos 2:8; 8:4; Hab 2:19
b Dan 2:48; 3:30
a Dan 3:3, 27; 6:1–7
a Dan 3:7; 4:1; 6:25
a Dan 3:7, 10, 15