Daniel 5:4
As they drank wine they praised their gods—idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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1 Kings 1:49When all of the guests who were supporting Adonijah heard this they shook with fear. They got up and rushed out in different directions.
Psalms 135:15The idols of the foreign nations are only objects of silver and gold, made by human hands.
Isaiah 42:8I am the Lord—that is my name! I do not give my honor to anyone else; I do not give my praise to idols.
Isaiah 46:6There are those who extravagantly tip out gold from their bags, and weigh out silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith to make them a god they can bow down to and worship.
Daniel 3:1King Nebuchadnezzar had a gold statue made that was sixty cubits tall and six cubits wide. He had it set up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
Daniel 5:23You have arrogantly defied the Lord of heaven and you had the cups and bowls of his Temple brought to you. You and your nobles, your wives and concubines, drank wine from them as you praised gods made of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that can't see or hear or know anything. But you have not honored God who holds in his hand your very breath and everything you do.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:2-10
Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. ( b. c. 538.) 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God… Read the whole commentary →