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The Bible presents Daniel and his companions as distinct, positive examples of individuals refusing to pay homage to another god, even at the price of their lives. During the time of the exile, Nebuchadnezzar erects a gold statue of himself and commands all subjects to worship it. Three Jewish officials – Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego ...
Daniel 2 (the second chapter of the Book of Daniel) tells how Daniel related and interpreted a dream of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.In his night dream, the king saw a gigantic statue made of four metals, from its head of gold to its feet of mingled iron and clay; as he watched, a stone "not cut by human hands" destroyed the statue and became a mountain filling the whole world.
In Greek mythology, Enyo (/ ɪ ˈ n aɪ oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Ἐνυώ, romanized: Enȳṓ) is a war-goddess, frequently associated with the war-god Ares. The Romans identified her with Bellona. [1] Enyo is also the name of one of the Graeae, one of three grey-haired sisters who share an eye and a tooth.
Stone statues discovered around Ammon may depict Milcom. [13] Several of these figures show features of the Ancient Egyptian god Osiris, namely the atef crown, suggesting that aspects of Osiris may have been adopted into Milcom's cult. [1] An image of a four-winged scarab beetle has also been suggested to portray Milcom, however, this is ...
The Emesa temple to the sun god Elagabalus with baetyl at centre. Roman coin of 3rd century AD. A baetyl (/ ˈ b iː t ɪ l /; also betyl), literally "house of god" is a sacred stone (sometimes believed to be a meteorite) that was venerated and thought to house a god or deity. [1]
Matzevah or masseva [1] (Hebrew: מַצֵּבָה, romanized: maṣṣēḇā "pillar" or stele (Koinē Greek: στήλη, romanized: stēlē) in the Septuagint, is a term used in the Hebrew Bible for a baetyl, a type of sacred column or standing stone.
An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words is a cross-reference from key English words in the Authorized King James Version to the original words in the Greek texts of the New Testament. Written by William Edwy Vine (and often referred to as Vine's Expository Dictionary or simply Vine's ), the dictionary was published as a four volume set ...
Enyo is a war goddess (Ἐνυώ) Enyo, one of the Graeae, also called the Grey Sisters or the Phorcides ("daughters of Phorcys") Enyo may also refer to: Enyo, a genus of moths; Enyo Krastovchev (born 1984), a Bulgarian footballer; Enyo (software), a JavaScript framework