Chapter 49
1 Now when a considerable time had passed and the eighteenth year had come, the king, recalling his dream, made a golden image whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits.
2 For since the blessed Daniel, in interpreting the dream for him, had answered the king saying, “You are the head of the image, the golden one,” the king Nebuchadnezzar, puffed up by this saying and lifted up in heart, made an image corresponding to it, so that he might be worshiped by all as a god.
3 So having constructed it on a great scale, he set it up on the plain of Deira in the country of Babylon.
4 And he sent and summoned the consuls and the generals and the local governors and all those in positions of authority to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
5 Then, when all the people had assembled together and the instruments sounded together all at once, peoples, tribes, and tongues fell down and worshiped the image—some of them out of fear of the king, but the whole company becoming idolaters—obeying the command that had been ordered by the king.