Verse 1

King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Kong Nebukadnesar laget en gullstatue som var seksti alen høy og seks alen bred. Han reiste den i Dura-dalen i provinsen Babylon.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Kong Nebukadnesar laget en billedstøtte av gull, som var seksti alen høy og seks alen bred. Han satte den opp på Durasletten i provinsen Babylon.

• Norsk King James

  Nebukadnesar, kongen, laget et bilde av gull, som var seksti alen høyt og seks alen bredt. Han satte det opp på sletten i Dura, i Babylon.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Kong Nebukadnesar fikk laget en gullstatue, som var nitti alen høy og seks alen bred. Den ble reist i Dura-dalen i Babel-provinsen.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Kong Nebukadnesar laget en statue av gull, seksti alen høy og seks alen bred, og han reiste den i Dura-dalen i provinsen Babylon.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Kong Nebukadnesar laget en gullstatue som var seksti alen høy og seks alen bred. Han satte den opp i Dura-sletten i provinsen Babylon.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Nebukadnesar, kongen, laget et gullbilde som var seksti alen høyt og seks alen bredt; han satte det opp på Dura-sletten i Babylon-provinsen.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Kong Nebukadnesar laget en gullstatue som var seksti alen høy og seks alen bred. Han satte den opp i Dura-sletten i provinsen Babylon.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Kong Nebukadnesar laget en billedstøtte av gull, seksti alen høy og seks alen bred, og han reiste den på Dura-sletten i provinsen Babylon.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue, ninety feet high and nine feet wide, and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Kong Nebukadnesar laget et bilde av gull. Det var seksti alen høyt og seks alen bredt. Han satte det opp i Dura-sletten i provinsen Babylon.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Kong Nebucadnezar lod gjøre et Billede af Guld, tredsindstyve Alen var Høiden derpaa, og sex Alen Bredden derpaa; han lod opreise det i den Dal Dura, i Babels Landskab.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Kongen Nebukadnesar laget en gullstatue som var seksti alen høy og seks alen bred. Han satte den opp på Durasletten i provinsen Babylon.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Kongen Nebukadnesar lagde en billedstatue av gull, seksti alen høy og seks alen bred. Han satte den opp på Durasletten i Babylons provins.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Kong Nebukadnesar lot lage en gullstatue, seksti alen høy og seks alen bred, som han reiste opp i Dura-dalen i provinsen Babylon.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Nebukadnesar, kongen, laget en gullstatue som var seksti alen høy og seks alen bred. Han satte den opp på sletten Dura i provinsen Babylon.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Kong Nebukadnesar laget en gullstatue, seksti alen høy og seks alen bred, som han satte opp i Dura-dalen i Babylons land.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Nabuchodonosor the kynge caused a golde ymage to be made, which was lx. cubites hye, and sixe cubites thicke. This he made to be set vp in the valley of Duran in the londe of Babilon

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Nebuchad-nezzar the King made an image of gold, whose height was three score cubits, and the breadth thereof sixe cubites: hee set it vp in the plaine of Dura, in the prouince of Babel.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Nabuchodonozor ye king made an image of gold, whiche was threescore cubites hie, and sixe cubites thicke: he set it vp in the plaine of Dura, in the prouince of Babylon.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Nebuchadnezzar the king hath made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits; he hath raised it up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babylon;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Daniel’s Friends Are Tested King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made. It was 90 feet tall and nine feet wide. He erected it on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 46:6 : 6 They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.
• Jer 16:20 : 20 Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?
• Hab 2:19 : 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake; to the mute stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.
• Hos 8:4 : 4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off.
• Isa 40:19-31 : 19 The workman molds a graven image, the goldsmith covers it with gold and casts silver chains. 20 He who is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not be moved. 21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in; 23 Who brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, their stock shall not take root in the earth; and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25 To whom then will you liken me, or to whom shall I be equal? says the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power; not one is missing. 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint nor is weary? His understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might he increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, 31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
• Acts 17:29 : 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and man's design.
• Acts 19:26 : 26 Moreover, you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands;
• 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 Therefore the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
• Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see; 6 They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell; 7 They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.
• Ps 135:15 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
• Isa 2:20 : 20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
• Isa 30:22 : 22 You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.
• Exod 20:23 : 23 You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.
• Exod 32:31 : 31 Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made gods of gold for themselves.
• Deut 7:25 : 25 The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
• Jer 10:9 : 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple are their clothing: they are all the work of skilled men.
• Dan 2:31-32 : 31 You, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. 32 This image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
• Dan 2:48 : 48 Then the king promoted Daniel, gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
• Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.
• Rev 9:20 : 20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
• Dan 3:30 : 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
• 2 Kgs 19:17-18 : 17 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
• Esth 1:1 : 1 Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces).
• Judg 8:26-27 : 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; besides ornaments, and pendants, and purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were on their camels' necks. 27 And Gideon made an ephod and put it in his city, in Ophrah: and all Israel went there to worship it: which became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
• Exod 32:2-4 : 2 Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."