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 exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”

Now the lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice, for they said,
“Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hands.”

“I am the Lord, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another,
Nor My praise to graven images.

“For she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they used for Baal.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

Of gold

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

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

The idols of the nations are but silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

As for the

idol, a craftsman casts it,

A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame,
Who trust in idols,
Who say to molten images,
“You are our gods.”

“Those who lavish gold from the purse
And weigh silver on the scale
Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
They bow down, indeed they worship it.

“They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.

“Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
And there is no breath at all inside it.

Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen;

General references

You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.

Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified; and they arose and each went on his way.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Or for rulers to desire strong drink,