Isaiah 46:1
The Idols of Babylon and the One True God
1 aBel bows down; Nebo stoops;their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
Jeremiah 50:2
2 “Declare among the nations and proclaim,set up a banner and proclaim,
conceal it not, and say:
b‘Babylon is taken,
cBel is put to shame,
Merodach is dismayed.
dHer images are put to shame,
her idols are dismayed.’
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar’s Golden Image
1King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on fthe plain of Dura, in gthe province of Babylon. Daniel 4:8
8At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named hBelteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is ithe spirit of the holy gods ▼▼Or Spirit of the holy God; also verses 9, 18
—and I told him the dream, saying,
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