Daniel 3:2 Cross References - DouayRheims

² Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, sent to call together the nobles, the magistrates, and the judges, the captains, the rulers, and governors, and all the chief men of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.

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. ⁵ And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord. ⁶ And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

² Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.

²³ And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.

³² And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in Juda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel priests of the high places, which he had made.

¹² A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

^{27 (3:94)} And the nobles, and the magistrates, and the judges, and the great men of the king, being gathered together, considered these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, and that not a hair of their head had been singed, nor their garments altered, nor the smell of the fire had passed on them.

¹ It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors, to be over his whole kingdom. ² And three princes over them of whom Daniel was one: that the governors might give an account to them, and the king might have no trouble. ³ And Daniel excelled all the princes, and governors: because a greater spirit of God was in him. ⁴ And the king thought to set him over all the kingdom; whereupon the princes, and the governors, sought to find occasion against Daniel, with regard to the king: and they could find no cause, nor suspicion, because he was faithful, and no fault, nor suspicion was found in him.

⁶ Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the king, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever: ⁷ All the princes of the kingdom, the magistrates, and governors, the senators, and judges, have consulted together, that an imperial decree, and an edict be published: That whosoever shall ask any petition of any god, or man, for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of the lions.

² With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom.