Daniel 3:1 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura, of the province of Babylon.

²³ You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.

² And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me. ³ And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron. ⁴ And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

³¹ And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,

²⁵ Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

²⁶ And the weight of the earlets that he requested, was a thousand seven hundred sicles of gold, besides the ornaments, and jewels, and purple raiment, which the kings of Madian were wont to use, and besides the golden chains that were about the camels necks. ²⁷ And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra. And all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gedeon, and to all his house.

²⁸ And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all. ¹⁸ And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

^{1 (11:2) In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, in the first day of the month Nisan, Mardochai the son of Jair, the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin:
(11:3) A Jew who dwelt in the city of Susan, a great man and among the first of the king's court, had a dream.
(11:4) Now he was of the number of the captives, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Juda:
(11:5) And this was his dream: Behold there were voices, and tumults, and thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.
(11:6) And behold two great dragons came forth ready to fight one against another.
(11:7) And at their cry all nations were stirred up to fight against the nation of the just.
(11:8) And that was a day of darkness and danger, of tribulation and distress, and great fear upon the earth.
(11:9) And the nation of the just was troubled fearing their own evils, and was prepared for death.
(11:10) And they cried to God: and as they were crying, a little fountain grew into a very great river, and abounded into many waters.
(11:11) The light and the sun rose up, and the humble were exalted, and they devoured the glorious.
(11:12) And when Mardochai had seen this, and arose out of his bed, he was thinking what God would do: and he kept it fixed in his mind, desirous to know what the dream should signify.
(12:1) And he abode at that time in the king's court with Bagatha and Thara the king's eunuchs, who were porters of the palace.
(12:2) And when he understood their designs, and had diligently searched into their projects, he learned that they went about to lay violent hands on king Artaxerxes, and he told the king thereof.
(12:3) Then the king had them both examined, and after they had confessed, commanded them to be put to death.
(12:4) But the king made a record of what was done: and Mardochai also committed the memory of the thing to writing.
(12:5) And the king commanded him, to abide in the court of the palace, and gave him presents for the information.
(12:6) But Aman the son of Amadathi the Bugite was in great honour with the king, and sought to hurt Mardochai and his people, because of the two eunuchs of the king who were put to death.}
In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty seven provinces:

⁴ The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. ⁵ They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not. ⁶ They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not. ⁷ They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat. ⁸ Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

¹⁵ The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

²⁰ In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

²² And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.

¹⁹ Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver? ²⁰ He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved. ²¹ Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth? ²² It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. ²³ He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity. ²⁴ And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. ²⁵ And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One? ²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing. ²⁷ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? ²⁸ Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom. ²⁹ It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not. ³⁰ You shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity. ³¹ But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

⁶ You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship.

⁹ Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.

²⁰ Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods?

³¹ Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible. ³² The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass.

⁴⁸ Then the king advanced Daniel to a high station, and gave him many and great gifts: and he made him governor over all the provinces of Babylon: and chief of the magistrates over all the wise men of Babylon.

^{30 (3:97)} Then the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, in the province of Babylon.

²³ But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.

⁴ They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.

¹⁹ Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to the dumb stone: Arise: can it teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there is no spirit in the bowels thereof.

²⁹ Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.

²⁶ And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.

²⁰ And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk: