Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Daniel 3:4
Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
The arguments of the persecutor are in brief, Turn or burn.
Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
The arguments of the persecutor are in brief, Turn or burn.
Verse Daniel 3:4. _THEN A HERALD CRIED ALOUD_] כרוזא קרא בחיל _caroza kara_ _bechayil_, "a crier called with might." _A bedel cried mightili_. - Old MS. Bible....
THEN AN HERALD CRIED ALOUD - Margin, as in Chaldee, “with might.” He made a loud proclamation. A “herald” here means a public crier. TO YOU IT IS COMMANDED - Margin, “they commanded.” Literally, “to...
CHAPTER 3 THE IMAGE OF GOLD _ 1. The image of gold (Daniel 3:1)_ 2. The faithful three (Daniel 3:8) 3. The miraculous deliverance (Daniel 3:19) 4. The worshipping king ...
DANIEL 3. THE GOLDEN IMAGE AND THE FIERY FURNACE. Nebuchadnezzar made a colossal image of gold and commanded the people to worship it. The three friends of Daniel refused to comply with the order. The...
HERALD. Chaldee. _karo_. _a_ '. Not from the Greek _kerux,_ but an old Persian word _khresic',_. crier, from which comes the Chaldee verb _k_ evar, to make. proclamation, as in Daniel 5:29. PEOPLE. p...
Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation regarding the image....
AND THE _herald cried aloud_ lit. _with might_: Song of Solomon 4:14; Song of Solomon 5:7; and in Heb. (though the substantive is a different one) Jonah 3:8. _peoples, nations, and languages_...
CHAPTER THREE I. DIVINE DELIVERANCEDaniel 3:1-30 a. PAGAN DEITY TEXT: Daniel 3:1-7 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six...
3:4 nations, (a-13) 'Tribes of people;' and so in vers. 7,29; chs. 4.1; 5.19; 6.25; 7.14. see Genesis 25:16 ....
THE GOLDEN IMAGE AND THE FIERY FURNACE Nebuchadnezzar sets up a colossal golden image, and summons to its dedication all the officials of his empire, who are commanded to fall down and worship the ima...
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.'...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 3 V1 King Nebuchadnezzar set up a gold image. It was 30 metres high and 3 metres wide. He set it up on the plain called Dura, in the d...
PEOPLE, NATIONS. — In Biblical language the latter word is used (Genesis 25:16) of the tribes of Ishmael, each of which had its own head, or of the Midianites (Numbers 25:15). The former is applied to...
וְ כָרֹוזָ֖א קָרֵ֣א בְ חָ֑יִל לְכֹ֤ון אָֽמְרִ
THE IDOL OF GOLD, AND THE FAITHFUL THREE REGARDED as an instance of the use of historic fiction to inculcate the noblest truths, the third chapter of Daniel is not only superb in its imaginative gran...
LOYALTY SEVERELY TESTED Daniel 3:1-18 The king, at the close of the foregoing chapter, acknowledged the supremacy of Daniel's God, yet here he erects an image to Bel and to himself, demanding divine...
The next story is of the pride of Nebuchadnezzar in setting up in the plain of Dura a great golden image. This may have been connected with the interpretation of the dream Daniel had given. The head o...
Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, (d) nations, and languages, (d) These are the two dangerous weapons, which Satan used to fight against the children of God, the consent of...
We have here the prosecution of this impious design. Reader! would it be believed, if fact had not proved it so, that men possessing reason, should fall down to so ridiculous a figure, as a lifeless,...
It is afterwards added — A _herald cried out lustily, or _among the multitude. This latter explanation does not suit so well — the herald crying amidst the multitude — -since there were a great concou...
After this general picture, we have, historically, the characteristic features of these empires, marking the condition into which they fall, through their departure from God-primarily and principally...
THEN AN HERALD CRIED ALOUD,.... That his voice might be heard all over the plain; or if it should be thought that one was not sufficient to be heard throughout, which probably was the case, and where;...
Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, Ver. 4. _To you it is commanded._] Chald., They command; _i.e., _ the king and his council. _as Esther 1:13_ _; _...
_Then a herald cried aloud_ Made proclamation in the languages of the several nations assembled; _To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages_ Whatever parts of the empire you come from,...
Then an herald cried aloud, literally, "with might," raising his voice to reach all the members of the assembled multitude, TO YOU IT IS COMMANDED, O PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES, this evidently bei...
THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...
ALOUD: Cald. with might IT IS COMMANDED: Cald. they commanded...
1-7 In the height of the image, about thirty yards, probably is included a pedestal, and most likely it was only covered with plates of gold, not a solid mass of that precious metal. Pride and bigotr...
AN HERALD: it is likely there were many heralds at the head of that great concourse, else they could not all hear. PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES: proclamation was made therefore in several languages,...
Daniel 3:4 herald H3744 cried H7123 (H8751) aloud H2429 commanded H560 (H8750) peoples H5972 nations H524 languages...
‘Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded O peoples, nations and languages, that at the time that you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer and all kinds of...
Daniel 3 I. We have here a specimen of religious intolerance. II. We see here how religious intolerance is to be met. These three young men simply refused to do what Nebuchadnezzar commanded, or, in...
CONTENTS: Pride of Nebuchadnezzar and his punishment. The image of gold. The three Jews refuse to worship the image. Fiery furnace proven harmless. The king convinced. CHARACTERS: God, Nebuchadnezzar...
Daniel 3:1. _An image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits._ As the breadth of this image was only six cubits, which is four short of the human proportion, it is conjectured that the pedestal w...
_To you it is commanded, O people._ THE IMPORTANCE OF THE IMPERATIVE We cannot do without this word “command” in our religious education. It is a Divine word. It would be instructive to trace the his...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar commands all peoples under his rule to worship a golden image. Daniel’s friends refuse, out of loyalty to their God. When God delivers them from the fiery furn...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XII.—THE GOLDEN IMAGE (Chap. Daniel 3:1) Sudden conversions not always lasting ones. Mere impulses often evanescent. Men’s goodness sometimes “as the early cloud or as the morning...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 3:1 THE GOLDEN IMAGE, AND THE FIERY FURNACE. DANIEL 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose heigh
Now in chapter 3 we find Nebuchadnezzar defying the revelation of God. Remember in his dream he saw the image with the head of gold, "thou art the head of gold," but it had a chest of silver for the B...
Daniel 4:1; Daniel 4:14; Daniel 6:25; Esther 8:9; Hosea 5:11;...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S IMAGE OF GOLD Daniel 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Daniel in Babylon. (1) How Daniel came to be in Babylon. When Jerusalem was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel and the three Heb...
Nations and languages — Proclamation was made therefore in several languages....