| Daniel 3:1
| King Nabuchodonosor *made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura, of the province of Babylon.
| Year of the World 3417, Year before Christ 587. Statue. It was not the figure of a man, (Calmet) the dimensions 90 feet high and 9 broad (Worthington) being disproportionate; though a man might be represented on the pillar. Some take it for Nabolpolassar, (Calmet) or for the king himself. (St. Jerome) (Worthington) --- But he never complains of the injury shewn to his own person, and therefore it probably was meant for Bel, the chief god, Daniel 4:5., and 14:1. This nation adored statues, Baruch 6:3. The Persians worshipped only the elements. (Calmet) --- Ochus first set up the statue of the goddess Tanais or Anais. (Clem. Protr.) --- Dura. Septuagint, "enclosed." (St. Jerome) --- This happened towards the end of the king's reign, (ver. 98, etc.) of course the three young men might be about fifty years old. (Calmet)
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