Daniel 3:5

When you hear the sounds made by the trumpets, the flutes, the guitars, the harps, the wind instruments, and all the other musical instruments, bow down to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s gold statue.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

In Context

4Then an announcer shouted, “You people who come from many countries and many people-groups and who speak many languages, listen to what the king has commanded!

6Anyone who refuses to do that will be thrown into a blazing furnace!”

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Cross References

Daniel 3:7So when all those people who had gathered heard the sounds made by the musical instruments, they all bowed down to worship the statue.

Daniel 3:15If that is true, I will give you one more chance. If you bow down to worship the statue that I have set up when you hear the sounds of the musical instruments, fine. But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. Then ◄what god will be able to rescue you from my power?/no god will be able to rescue you from my power!►” [RHQ]

Matthew Henry on Daniel 3:2-8

Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Image. ( b. c. 587.) 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 3 Then the… Read the whole commentary →

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