The Golden Image (Daniel 3:1-8)

Prayer for Illumination and a Humble Start

Let's go ahead and open in prayer Lord, whatever you have for us this morning delivered out of your word. We are excited to receive. We look forward to your Holy Spirit bringing to us your truth through the words of Scripture.

And we'll thank you for what you're going to do in our lives by that Revelation not that revelation a new but an illumination of the old words of Scripture that have been true for millennia. We thank you for them in Jesus name.

Amen before we start this morning,. I After I finished last week, I was sitting in my seat listening to Jim's message and I Don't know what triggered it. I think I heard a whisper. No, I don't I no kidding all kidding aside I realized that I had been snarky and snippy about post tribulation ism and our amillennial ism and Post millennial ism and there are plenty of beloved brothers and sisters who are Genuine born-again believing Christians who believe in those two methods of the end times and I need to apologize for that Snarkiness and it will not happen again, or if it does any of you with a good-sized Bible I'll buy you a new one.

Just chuck it or tomato.

But.

Yeah, that's close. There will be no more about that because there are as I said, there are plenty of good scholarly Bible believing Christians who think differently in eschatology and. So I'm apologizing for my attitude last week and it will change.

I will call attention to I will try to faithfully represent what the other methods of believing are as well as those of us who believe in pre tribulation ism and That will be as far as that goes no more of this of the unkindness so with that being said.

Reading Daniel 3:1-18 and the Worship of the Golden Image

And now that I'm thoroughly embarrassed after doing that last week. Let's read chapter 3 through about verse 18 because we're gonna start chapter 3. This is another interesting thing about some of the Old Testament books.

The stories in them are famous world-round whether they're Received by Bible believers or not. So let's look at chapter 3 of Daniel verses 1 through 18. Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold the height of which was 60 cubits and it's with Six cubits.

He set it up on the plain of Jura in the province of Babylon. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent word to assemble the satraps the prefects the governors the counselors the treasurers the judges the magistrates And all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up then I believe it's satraps the prefects and the governors the counselors the treasurers the judges the Magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the image The Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Then the Herald loudly proclaimed to you The command is given O people's nations and men of every language That at the moment you hear the horn the sound of the horn flute lyre Trigon psaltery bagpipe and all kinds of music you are to fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire. Therefore at that time when all the people's heard the sound of the horn flute lyre Trigon Psaltery bagpipe and all kinds of music all the people's and men of every language fell down and worship the golden image.

The Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. For this reason at the time certain Chaldeans came forward and brought charges against the Jews. They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king. Oh king live forever.

You yourself O king have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn flute lyre Trigon Psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music is to fall down and worship the golden image. But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.

There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon namely Shadrach Meshach and Abednego these men O king have disregarded you. They do not serve your gods or worship the golden image Which you have set up then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and anger gave orders to bring Shadrach Meshach and Abednego.

Then these men were brought before the king. Nebuchadnezzar responded and said to them is it true Shadrach Meshach and Abednego that you do not serve my gods or Worship the golden image that I have set up.

Now if you are ready at the moment, you hear the sound of the horn flute lyre Trigon Psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image that I have made very well but if you will not worship you will immediately be cast in the midst of a furnace of blazing fire and What God is there who can deliver you out of my hands?

Shadrach Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king Oh Nebuchadnezzar We do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter. If it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire.

And he will deliver us out of your hand Oh King. But even if he does not let it be known to you Oh King that we are not going to serve your gods. Or worship the golden image that you have set up. Sounds like disobedience to me.

Nebuchadnezzar’s Pride, the Statue’s Size, and the Historical Setting

So now we come to chapter 3. Which details a famous story that pretty much is known the whole world over. Chapter 3 tells the story of the three friends of Daniel Who refused to worship an earthly king or God and were subsequently threatened with death in a furnace of fire and then thrown in the fire.

Their survival and that and the effect that that had on kid Nebuchadnezzar make up the rest of the story of this chapter. So at this point it is my contention. And I think it's easy to defend that Nebuchadnezzar if he ever Trusted Christ trusted the Lord has not done that so far.

He has no faith in Jehovah God, he's going to kill people who serve other gods or other images so verse 1 says Nebuchadnezzar the king made the image of gold the height of which was 60 cubits and it's with six cubits.

He set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. There's much speculation as to when this occurred. Some think it was as many as a about 18 years after Nebuchadnezzar's ascension to power.

Others put it at about eight to ten years after. Into eight to ten years into his reign there's some evidence that it actually may have followed a Military an attempted military coup by the Babylonian military in late 595 to 594 BC which Nebuchadnezzar put down viciously and Disposed of if you will those those military officers that had led the coup.

So successfully did he deal with this coup this rebellion that he later even conquered more territories with the same military. In the Septuagint the statue is connected with the destruction of Jerusalem By the Babylonian King which is referenced in second Kings and in Jeremiah.

So for those who want in you can go to second Kings 25 8 through 10, and this is what it says. Now bear in mind this describes this the destruction of Jerusalem. It doesn't talk about this Event with Dan with Daniel's three friends.

It just talks about the destruction of Jerusalem now on the seventh day of the fifth month. Which was the 19th year of King Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon? Nebuchadnezzar Adan the captain of the guard a servant of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem.

He burned the house of the Lord the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem. Then even every great house he burned with fire so all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem and then Jeremiah chapter 52 verses 12 through 14.

It says now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the 19th year of King Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar Adan the captain of the bodyguard who was in the service of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem.

He burned the house of the Lord the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem even every large house He burned with fire. So all the army of the Chaldeans are with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

So this is a pretty significant destruction of the city of the houses of the palace of all the great houses so the houses of the rich houses of some of the poor destroyed Jerusalem would have been left in tatters, but It doesn't say anything about Shadrach Meshach and Abednego.

So all of these propositions how are however are simply opinions for there is nothing historically that connects the erection of the statue With the destruction of Jerusalem at any rate. There is no doubt that it did happen after the events of Daniel chapter 2.

We see reference to the fact that Shadrach Meshach and Abednego were officers in the province as mentioned in Daniel 2 49. So it says in the last verse of chapter 2. And Daniel made request of the king and He appointed Shadrach Meshach and Abednego over the administration of the province of Babylon while Daniel was at the king's court.

So Daniel Ray made the request they were appointed to positions. They were in those positions when this statue was erected. They chose not to fall down and they were turned in by the Karens of the I mean by the people of the day by the tattletales of the day.

Shouldn't use that name because there's very nice Karens out there. So and then at the end of the chapter we find at the end of this chapter. We find out that after their refusal to Compromise their principles then the king caused Shadrach verse Meshach and Abednego to prosper in the province of Babylon verse 30.

So these events occurred after Daniel chapter 2. Why do I say it that way? Because there's people who in their effort to pick apart the book of Daniel want to switch the chapter order. Because it was written in the 2nd century, don't you know it was written as a history?

No, it wasn't. It was written in the 6th century BC and it was full of prophecies that the Lord saw fit to come to have come true so the statue another critical another critics. That they another grenade that the critics law.

But this was the size of the statue and what it was made of and and etc. Well, this statue would have been a common creation of the Kings of old very likely. It was wood. Overlaid with gold. It was disproportionate if you if you do the figures, you know six cubits wide 60 cubits tall.

It was disproportionate unless there was a large base and we'll talk about that large base layer and Some believe that that is what is described here. It was 99 feet tall and about 9 feet in width. Have any of you seen the statue of Jesus over Rio de Janeiro?

That's approximately the size of this statue within a few feet actually within just a few feet. I think that statue is 90 feet tall. There are multitudes of ancient monuments like this the Colossus of Rhodes comes to mind which was 70 cubits tall and while Nebuchadnezzar Was certainly wealthy enough to have built this statue entirely of gold.

It was like I said, most likely wood plates overlaid a wooden overlaid with plates of gold. Herodotus describes the statue of Bell or Marduk, which is a Babylonian God being overlaid with 800 talents of gold.

So I did. I went online the day I wrote this up and figured out what that would be worth today. Do you know how much money was wasted on a statue of a pagan God? Any guesses in Today's numbers if you said the ION with the B.

You were close. Yeah. It was 1 .32 billion dollars worth of gold in in tribute to a pagan God. Now there's much speculation as to what the statue looked like. Some think it was a statue of Nebuchadnezzar.

However, there is no clear history of the Babylonian kings making statues of themselves. They generally made statues of their gods. It was more likely his patron God Nebo. Others think it was similar to an Egyptian obelisk, which is just a four-sided like the Washington Monument just a four-sided pillar with chapter 2 as Context it is very likely that it was a representation of either Nebuchadnezzar or his God and it would have drawn inspiration from the dream.

He had that Daniel interpreted the statue in his dream was composed of five Components in this case. This statue was entirely of gold most likely obliquely or Surreptitiously representing Nebuchadnezzar himself the head of gold.

Remember he was it was spoken of. Daniel told him he was the head of gold. In some way because Daniel had said he was the head of gold. So here we see the pride of Nebuchadnezzar rearing its ugly head.

Which he will have to deal with quite quite the Lord will have to deal with quite a few times. The reference to the plain of Dura is most likely refers to an area about six miles southeast of the city of Babylon.

The name of the plain and this is from the Encyclopedia Bible encyclopedia the name of the plain in which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon set up the great golden image Which all his subjects were ordered to worship.

Opert one of the excavators of the day and of the area Placed it to the southeast of Babylon near a small river and mounds bearing the same bearing the name of Duer or Duar. Were also was what seemed to be the base and also there seemed to be what seemed to be the base of a great statue.

And this is a scientific expedition in the Mesopotamia Mesopotamia. Others believe the name to indicate a portion of the actual site of Babylon within the Great Wall the Duru of the city. Perhaps the rampart designated Dura Susanna Suanna, excuse me, Suanna the rampart of the city.

So it was either a few miles southeast or it was right inside the city at any rate. It was associated in an area and raised to such a height that people all around Would be able to see it would be very clear to them in the city and without.

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Statue 90 feet tall can be seen from quite a ways in flat ground. Really quite a ways you could see if there was a statue that tall in Sandpoint from here. It'd be really easy to see it if there weren't a bunch of stuff in the way.

The Number Six, the Herald, and the Musical Call to Worship

Another issue of note is that the dimensions of the statue introduced the number six quite unintentionally. Lots have been made over this the numerologists in. Not necessarily in ranks of Christianity.

But numerologists have made quite quite a bit of hay with the sixes. The simple fact is that the Babylonian Numeric system was a sexidential sexidential Numerical system. It was based on the number six and I'll talk about that in a minute here.

This seemingly insignificant detail has no numerology content. But that does add credence to the entire story of Daniel because the Babylonian number system was a sex a decimal or base Six number system.

The system of numbers is still in use today. Do you know where? How many seconds are there in a minute? Why not a hundred we're based in how many minutes are there in an hour. What how many degrees are there in a compass.

Three hundred sixty and how many minutes are in a degree? Sixty we still use the basic system quite a bit so time and direction. And that's really all it was was that the when the Babylonians would make something.

They would make it according to their numerical system. It would be just logical. When we build which it's always struck me why we have our studs and I need to in five eights. But that's another story.

Yeah, that's so that the two top plates and the bottom plate will add up to a an 8-foot sheet of plywood, I guess. But we deal in eights. Okay, finally Daniel was not present for the ceremony. So this can indicate that some time had passed and he was likely on the business of the king somewhere else in the province.

Because had he been there He would have been called just to to the to the plane because it was calling all of the they had honchos. And we'll see that in a minute here. Any questions or comments about verse 1 verse 2?

So.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent word to assemble the satraps the prefects the governors the counselors the treasurers the judges the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up if this loyalty oath procedure did take place.

Subsequent. Yes, if he had been there, yes, but he was not present.

Well, assuming he didn't bow down and I think we can all make that assumption that he wouldn't have bowed down. Right. No, he would have been subject. It wouldn't have to just been Jews if there had been a an Indian satrap who hadn't bowed down.

He would have been sent to the to the furnace the Babylonians like to roast people. I did a little bit of study in their History, there's a there's in one reference. It was like they roasted two of ours, let's roast some of theirs.

I mean they said it much more eloquently than that, but they killed two of our our soldiers. Let's roast some of theirs and that's the word they use roast. So It's you know, it was just a matter of that type of culture very coarse.

Culture where life had very little meaning. Unless you were a king or somebody in position of authority. So if this loyalty procedure did take place subsequent to the military rebellion in Babylon It would have been logical for the king to require all the people in positions of responsibility To come and pledge their fealty to him.

So it would be a reminder to everybody that you need to pledge fealty to the king. And if you don't here's what will happen to you like that coup. I put down a couple of years ago. Remember that as As is the case with most large governmental organizations, there would have probably been quite a few people involved in the named positions here government left to itself grows and or even left to itself and an attempted to be keeping from growing still grows and so there would have been a lot of Satraps and all of those other names.

Any questions or comments about that? Verse 3. Then the satraps the prefects the governors the counselors the treasurers the judges the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces. Were assembled for the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up and they stood before the image.

That Nebuchadnezzar had set up some of these offices are Babylonian words and some are Persian. Daniel probably updated this when he wrote the book. Of course the fact that there are differences has elicited comment from Daniel deniers.

That's what I'm going to call him Daniel deniers. Most likely when Daniel wrote this book the Persians had come to power and would have been normal for him to Update the information with those terms that would be make sense in the day that he wrote the book.

The fact is this is in fact further proof that Daniel wrote this book 600 years before Christ as it demonstrates clear familiarity with these offices that existed during Nebuchadnezzar's reign. These are the positions described by a commentator.

These positions are described by a commentator this way. The satraps were the highest political offices in each province. The prefects princes were military chiefs. The governors remember that this was a Nation of many peoples and tribes many different peoples and tribes.

The governors or captains were heads of sections of the provinces. So maybe counties if you will. The counselors which were advisors or judges were high-ranking judges. The treasurers were superintendents of the Treasury of the independent areas.

Individual areas. The judges or counselors were secondary judges and the magistrates sheriffs were lower-level Officials lower-level legal officials. The rulers or officials were subordinates of the satraps.

They would have been directly serving under the satraps. These positions would have represented all of the administrative government of the Empire and there would have been many languages involved the thus the use of musical instruments to signal the time to bow down.

The entire concept is in Close keeping with the way the ancients did things often they would use music to symbol to signal a particular activity that needed to happen. You notice the sounding of Coronets or trumpets during the times of war to signal and we used it in our cavalry.

There's there's Reveille. There's attack. There's charge. There's get out of here you idiots, you know, or or whatever retreat. All kinds of different things and you would know what each tune was what each of those tunes meant.

So this was very common very common in ancient times. So then the Herald loudly proclaimed in verse 4 To you the command is given O peoples Nations and men of every language. So based on the translation of these words, especially the last one in this verse, which is translated speech the word language.

One could properly assume that when the Herald gave this command It would have been translated into the languages of all the assembled officials. This word for Herald in the Chaldean another place for Daniel deniers to camp Kharaz k-a-r-o-z Resembles the Greek Karuk's k-e-r-u-x.

Some critics have challenged that because of the presence of Greek words Daniel wrote in the 2nd century. It has been BC. It has been noted However that this word has been traced back to the old Persian word carousel.

Which means caller someone who calls out something? Many of these words seem to have been incorrectly assigned to the Greek language when they were either Chaldean or old Persian and this actually Strengthens the position that the book was written 600 years before Christ rather than weakens it.

The Instruments and the Command to Bow Before the Golden Image

Verse 5.

That at the moment. So let's read three and four together four and five together.

I mean.

Then the Herald loudly proclaimed to you the command is given O people's nations and men of every language That at the moment verse 5 you hear the sound of the horn flute. Is it lyre or leer. Lyre, okay, so I've been okay.

I wasn't lying. The horn flute lyre trigon salt re bagpipe and all kinds of music about bagpipes or Scottish You are to fall down and worship the golden image that nebuchadnezzar the king has set up the familiarity in this culture with.

The particular type of instruments was well established and those who were given the command to pay attention to the sound of these instruments Would have known what was being referenced. They would have been comfortable with this religious association between their responsibilities as government government officials and Worship, they would have been comfortable with that in this particular culture.

Some of the interest instruments in the list it has been challenged are of Greek origin. Well, of course if they're of Greek origin It must have been written in the second century. Dr. Edwin Yamauchi an eminent ancient Old Testament scholar I don't know if he's ancient but he's an Old Testament was an Old Testament scholar pointed out however That it was common for agents to have foreign musicians and foreign instruments in their courts as one common near to points out the argument actually Disintegrates because if Daniel was actually written in Greek there would be far more Greek words than there are.

The Babylonians and Greeks had significant interaction Culturally and economically at this time. So this would have been normal. Further studies by Yamauchi has cited in Walworth's commentary demonstrate that not only are the Greek words to be expected.

The situation illustrates the interchange of commerce and cultures in the ancient world and dr Charles Dyer has categorized them as instruments this way. The first instrument Was a horn. That one's an easy one though.

It usually referred to the horn of an animal. It is also described it also described musical instruments made of wood or metal. Then there's the flute. The second instrument was a pipe this identification being based on the fact that the word comes from the root.

That means to hiss. With the third instrument Daniel introduced a new grouping in Nebuchadnezzar's in musicians the lyre. While the first two instruments are wind instruments. The next three are stringed instruments.

The first of these is translated as lyre and has variously been identified as a harp a lyre or a zither. The trigon may be identified with the Greek Sambuca and the Roman Sambuca in the King James, which was a horizontal angular harp.

This word was correctly incorrectly translated as sackbut in the King James. The word translated harp was likely a trapezoid shaped dulcimer either plucked or played with a small a plectra a small piece of metal or wood so like you've seen a dulcimer.

Most of you have seen them or even what come to mind in my mind was a.

Xylophone.

But not not the same that would not have been strings. The final instrument is translated bagpipes, but this identification is problematic. There is good instrumental good linguistic evidence for identifying it as a drum.

Similar to a timpani besides it would seem odd to list two wind instruments and three and stringed instruments followed by another wind instrument. The final instrument is for percussion. However, the order of the instruments is harmonious.

Daniel would have listed two wind instruments and three stringed instruments than one Percussion instrument while exact identification of the instruments remains difficult. Here is the proposed listing.

Dr Dyer gives horn. Double reed pipe lyre harp dulcimer and drum at any rate. It would have been a melodious call to order and. So there are instruments and I had pictures. I've neglected to bring the the thumb thumb drive that has the PowerPoint on it.

I had some images that were made of the kinds of instruments that have been found in Archaeological digs that probably it would probably correspond to these. So those are the instruments and the idea was that once everybody had the command and knew that they were to listen for music.

Everybody would know what the music meant. What did the music mean? Fall down kneel get on your face before the false. God verse 6.

Fear, False Worship, and the Meaning of Immediate Obedience

But.

Whoever does not fall down and worship the image worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire. This command would have for the most part have fallen on receptive ears.

In ancient times People were not reared with the sense of the rights they had. But with the understanding of conformity to the ruling hierarchy, that's how they were reared as children. It would have never occurred to them to say I'm not falling down and worshiping some false God it would have only occurred to those who had been raised with an understanding of their inherent worth and the God a true God that they would serve who had given them life and given them rights and responsibilities.

To these people everything flowed through the gods to their Almost deity-like ruler the king and so if he said jump you would just you wouldn't even ask how high you would just jump and They this was normal.

It was it was normal for all these people. If we had been there and been able to watch it We would have seen an immediate fall of everybody but three people which would have been pretty impressive. I want to be one of those.

The idea of uniformity and religious worship was the rule of the day and People would not have even fought to question it because they had been so conditioned from birth. They came from stock that from time immemorial had been reared with the idea that the civil authority Could command fidelity to a God.

Your County Commissioners can tell you which God to worship. Your state legislators have the authority. It's in statute to tell you who you are going to worship. Imagine that do you I mean doesn't that just kind of twang in your head as way off.

That's how they were reared. That's what it was like. So whether this was a statue that represented Nebuchadnezzar's patron God or a statue of Nebuchadnezzar himself the idea of prostrating yourself Before it would be comforting to the average citizen because you would be Rendering obedience to that which protected you that which was your life if you will.

It was no slight to your own gods to worship someone else's gods in an age of polytheism there were. I don't know how many gods there are in the Indian pantheon, but someone said something like 10 ,000.

And Holy mackerel, how would you. Well probably mackerel were holy too. I shouldn't said that. But how would you know? Elephant gods and snake gods and moon gods and mountain gods and river gods and tree gods and leaf gods and Sorry, I'm really glad we served the one true God.

So, of course the Jews had been reared to love and worship the one true God and would have been deeply offended by this call to worship. And if they had the courage to do so they would not have bowed down Nebuchadnezzar with regard to refusal to bow down as both he regarded refusal to bow down as both disrespect to the gods and Treason to the nation.

So it was tied together disrespect of their gods was treason to the nation and These crimes were punishable by death. Some critics because they believe this book to have been written in the 2nd century BC draw a connection here.

Between the persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes in 168 to 167 BC. They claim this would be the historical context for the story. The epikid Nezha was not attempting as Antiochus was to destroy the Jewish religion.

So there's no connection here. The epikid Nezha was simply he had created a loyalty oath probably Following on the heels of a rebellion and he wanted to make sure everybody knew don't do that. This was he was not attempting to destroy the Jewish the Jewish religion.

He allowed them to worship their God. Actually probably delightedly allowed them to worship their God. He talked about it in chapter. We looked at it in the earlier chapters. The another interesting bit of information the word translated immediately is the Chaldean word for our and it is the first introduction of the concept of timekeeping in the Old Testament.

The furnace mentioned here was most likely a kiln constructed of bricks and used for many of nebuchadnezzar's wide-ranging projects. And by the way on the plains of Dura I might have have it here somewhere else.

But on the plains of Dura where this Opert believes the statue to have been erected. They found a gigantic brick base that would have been perfect for mounting a giant statue on and most likely could have been most likely could have been a few years before this entry in incident in 9th in about 597 BC before this incident of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego.

The Prophet Jeremiah wrote about two Israelite prophets who had predicted nebuchadnezzar's downfall. Guess what happened to them? They were thrown into a furnace in the same way and their death was supposed to become a curse.

To those who would be used among the exiles. Jeremiah 29 29 29 21 through 23 says thus says the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel concerning Ahab the son of Kaliah and Concerning Zedekiah the son of Masiah who are prophesying to you falsely in my name.

The prophecy that nebuchadnezzar would be overthrown was false in God's name. Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and he will slay them before your eyes. Because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon saying may the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire.

Because they have acted foolishly in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors wives and have spoken words in my name Falsely, which I did not command them and I am he who knows and am a witness declares the Lord.

False Prophets, Jeremiah 29, and the End of Verse 6

Why is it that false prophets? More often than not are also serial adulterers. You find that throughout history. That's an interesting concept to me. That was verse 6 and we'll finish up with verse 7 today.

Therefore at that time because we're finishing up verse 7 because 8 is where the accusation is made and the Daniel Daniel's three friends are brought before the king in a trial and it's quite Quite intricate and interesting.

So therefore verse 7 at that time when all the people's heard the sound of the horn flute lyre Trigon psaltery bagpipe and all kinds of musics the people's nations and men of every language. Fell down and worship the golden image that the Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.