Daniel 3:1 meaning and explanation

King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 3:1, Berean Standard Bible

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The narrator opens a new episode in the court stories of Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, sets up a golden statue on the plain of Dura, and its dimensions, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, suggest a towering monument, perhaps a stele or an image on a base rather than a free standing figure.

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