King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue erected and ordered that everyone must bow before the statue. At the sound of the trumpet, a crowd bows before the statue. A man tells the king, on the left of the balcony, that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refuse to bow. The three men are captured in the middle of the background. On the far right, a furnace is fired up to burn anyone who does not bow. Below the scene a reference in Latin to the Bible text in Dan. 3, King Nebuchadnezzar and the worship of the golden statue History of Daniel Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti , print

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