| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Da 3:3 | Strong Concordance | Then [0116] the princes [0324], the governors [05460], and captains [06347], the judges [0148], the treasurers [01411], the counsellors [01884], the sheriffs [08614], and all [03606] the rulers [07984] of the provinces [04083], were gathered together [03673] unto the dedication [02597] of the image [06755] that Nebuchadnezzar [05020] the king [04430] had set up [06966]; and they stood [06966] before [06903] the image [06755] that Nebuchadnezzar [05020] had set up [06966]. |
| King James | Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| stood before the image--in an attitude of devotion. Whatever the king approved of, they all approve of. There is no stability of principle in the ungodly. |