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Daniel 3:28

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, whose superiority to his own gods the king thus recognized, who hath sent His angel and delivered His servants, that trusted in Him and have changed the king's word, boldly transgressing his commands, and yielded their bodies, offering them without flinching in the interest of their loyalty to their God, that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 28. _BLESSED BE THE GOD OF SHADRACH, C._] Here is a noble testimony from a heathen. And what produced it? The intrepidly pious conduct of these three noble Jews. Had they been time-servers, the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR SPAKE, AND SAID, BLESSED BE THE GOD OF SHADRACH ... - On the characteristic of mind thus evinced by this monarch, see the notes and practical remarks at Daniel 2:46. WHO HATH SENT...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    THEN THE KING BLESSED THE GOD OF SHADRACH, ETC. Offered him adoration. It is what we might have expected. He was. religious king. There was no doubt, now that Jehovah was. powerful God. Hence he wors...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Nebuchadnezzar's doxology, and edict of toleration....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _spake_ ANSWERED. _Blessed_, &c. cf. the confessions in 1 Kings 10:9; 2 Chronicles 2:12. _sent his angel_ cf. Genesis 24:7;...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1124 THE HEBREW YOUTHS IN THE FIERY FURNACE Daniel 3:28. _Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshech, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivere...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    e. PHILANTHROPIC DECREE TEXT: Daniel 3:26-30 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Mos...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HAVE CHANGED. — Literally, _have transgressed. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עָנֵ֨ה נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּ֜ר וְ אָמַ֗ר בְּרִ֤יךְ אֱלָהֲהֹון֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LOYALTY REWARDED Daniel 3:19-30 It is only when we reach the fire that we become aware of the presence of the divine Companion, walking beside us as if treading the dew-besprinkled glades of Paradise...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Then] Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, (m) Blessed [be] the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! pray observe what is here said. Nebuchadnezzar is astonished, and so are his courtiers. But is this all? Yes! for had there been more than astonishment and any grace wrought in the heart, the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    This, indeed, is no common confession, but the event proved how suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar was acted on by impulse, without having, the living root of the fear of God in his heart. And I repeat this...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR SPAKE AND SAID,.... In the presence of his princes and prime ministers of state, and made the following confession, to the praise and glory of the true God; which was extorted from...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Daniel 3:28 [Then] Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed [be] the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach_, &c. So Darius offers up his acknowledgments to the God of Daniel 6:26, looking upon him as superior to other gods, but not as the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    28-30 What God did for these his servants, would help to keep the Jews to their religion while in captivity, and to cure them of idolatry. The miracle brought deep convictions on Nebuchadnezzar. But n...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Thus out of the mouths of blasphemers and contemners of God can the Lord ordain praise: yet all this did not draw off this king from his idolatry, for he saith, THE GOD OF SHADRACH, & c., not his God....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 3:28 Nebuchadnezzar H5020 spoke H6032 (H8750) saying H560 (H8750) Blessed H1289 (H8752) God H426 Shadrach...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his supernatural agency, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and they have changed the ki...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent His angel and delivered His servants._ THE PERSECUTING SPIRIT The occasion of these words...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _That they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated._ THE FIERY FURNACE I. THE PERSON WHO CAUSED IT TO BE MADE. This Oriental despot was then in the zenith of his g...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 3:28 Nebuchadnezzar’s question in v. Daniel 3:15 had been decisively answered, as he is forced to testify. Yet his heart is not yet changed: the God of whom he spoke was still...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DANIEL 3:1 THE GOLDEN IMAGE, AND THE FIERY FURNACE. DANIEL 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose heigh

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 5:20; 1 Peter 1:21; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:21;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

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