Dan 3:1 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Dan 3:1-30: 3:1-30 Nebuchadnezzar’s megalomania, perhaps encouraged by the vision of ch 2 , inspired him to construct a gilded statue and demand that everyone in his empire worship it. He had not learned the lesson that God cannot be captured in any created thing. The three young Hebrews refused to worship it as a god. They were faithful to the Lord, and the Lord rescued them from the king’s wrath. 3:1 The plain of Dura might be the plain adjacent to the city of Babylon, or the Aramaic term might refer to the magnificent outer wall of Babylon described by the Greek historian Herodotus. • statue: Literally image.

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‏ Daniel 3:1

Summary for Dan 3:1-30: 3:1-30 ^a Nebuchadnezzar’s megalomania, perhaps encouraged by the vision of ch 2 ^b, inspired him to construct a gilded statue and demand that everyone in his empire worship it. He had not learned the lesson that God cannot be captured in any created thing. The three young Hebrews refused to worship it as a god. They were faithful to the Lord, and the Lord rescued them from the king’s wrath. 3:1 ^c The plain of Dura might be the plain adjacent to the city of Babylon, or the Aramaic term might refer to the magnificent outer wall of Babylon described by the Greek historian Herodotus.

• statue: Literally image.