Babylon’s Idols and the True God

46 (A)Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their idols have become loads for the animals and the cattle.
The things [a]that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary animal.

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  1. Isaiah 46:1 Lit carried by you

(A)Declare and proclaim among the nations.
Proclaim it and (B)lift up a flag,
Do not conceal it. Say,
(C)Babylon has been captured,
(D)Bel has been put to shame, [a]Marduk has been [b]shattered;
Her (E)idols have been put to shame, her images have been shattered.’

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  1. Jeremiah 50:2 Heb Merodach
  2. Jeremiah 50:2 Or dismayed

The King’s Golden Image

Nebuchadnezzar the king made a (A)statue of gold, the height of which was [a]sixty cubits, and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the (B)province of Babylon.

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  1. Daniel 3:1 About 90 ft. high and 9 ft. wide or 27 m and 2.7 m

But finally Daniel came in before me, whose name is (A)Belteshazzar according to the name of my god, and in whom is [a](B)a spirit of the holy gods; and I related the dream [b]to him, saying,

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  1. Daniel 4:8 Or possibly the Spirit of the holy God, and so throughout the ch
  2. Daniel 4:8 Lit before

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