Daniel 3:7-9

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⁷ Now people, nations, and those who spoke every language were there. When they heard the sound of the horns, flutes, lyres, zithers [v. 5], pipes, and all the other musical instruments, they ·bowed [^Lfell] down and worshiped the gold statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

⁸ Then some ·Babylonians [^LChaldeans] came up to the king and ·began speaking against [denounced; ^Late pieces of] the men of Judah. ⁹ They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!