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Daniel 5:4

Daniel chapter 5 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Context

v.3Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

v.4This passage

v.5In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Daniel 5:23

    but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.

  • Psalms 115:4

    Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.

  • Revelation 9:20

    And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

  • Habakkuk 2:19

    Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

  • Judges 16:23

    And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

  • Jeremiah 10:4

    They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.