“Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: and he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon” (v. 1). Imagine! An idol ninety feet high and nine feet wide! In his campaigning days Nebuchadnezzar had been in Egypt and had seen the pyramids, the sphinxes, the colossal temples, and the enormous statue of Rameses the Great. The sheer size of these things left their mark
Daniel 3:1