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Daniel 3:7

Verse 7 of 30. The 3rd of 12 chapters in Daniel, in The Major Prophets.

3Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

4Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

5that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

6Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

7Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

8Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near and brought accusation against the Jews.

9They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

10You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music shall fall down and worship the golden image;

11and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.