How tall and wide was Nebuchadnezzar's golden image in Daniel chapter 3?
The golden image was sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, which equals roughly ninety feet tall and about nine feet wide. A cubit is about a foot and a half. Nebuchadnezzar set it on the Middle Eastern desert sands and demanded the known world worship it.
Les explains that Nebuchadnezzar’s dream likely became a catalyst for making this image. In the dream, the image had only a head of gold, but Nebuchadnezzar was filled with his own power and wanted to unite all pagan religions into worship of one image of himself. The image he made was of gold, sixty cubits—three score—high, and six cubits wide. Using the context’s measure of a cubit as about a foot and a half, that is ninety feet high and about nine feet wide. He set it on the Middle Eastern desert sands and demanded that his whole then-known world worship it. Les also ties this to the last great world ruler, the Antichrist, who will do the same thing.
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.
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How large was Nebuchadnezzar's golden image in Daniel 3?
Nebuchadnezzar's golden image was about 90 feet high (60 cubits) and about 9 feet wide (6 cubits), so it was a huge image.
What was the catalyst for Nebuchadnezzar making the golden image in Daniel 3?
Nebuchadnezzar's dream was a catalyst that led him to build the golden image in Daniel chapter 3.