Daniel 5:4

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Summary

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Praised

Of gold

General references

Exodus 20:23

1 Kings 1:49

Proverbs 31:4

Bible References

Praised

But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.

I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.

For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

Of gold

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon.

Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

For there was a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-worker, who made silver boxes for the images of Diana, and gave no small profit to the workmen;

General references

Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

And all the guests of Adonijah got up in fear and went away, every man to his place.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?