and whoso falleth not down and worshipeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. This mode of punishment was in use among the Babylonians, and since all men were required to fall on their faces in the act of adoration, it would be all the easier to pick out all such as might refuse to obey the king's decree.
Verse Daniel 3:6. _SHALL THE SAME HOUR_] This is the first place in the Old Testament where we find the division of time into _hours_. The Greeks say that _Anaximander_ was the inventor. He had it pro...
AND WHOSO FALLETH NOT DOWN AND WORSHIPPETH - The order in this verse seems to be tyrannical, and it is contrary to all our notions of freedom of religious opinion and worship. But it was much in the s...
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...
_the same hour_ Cf. Daniel 3:15; Daniel 4:33; Daniel 5:5 (also -hour" alone, Daniel 4:16). The expression is common in Syriac, as in the Pesh. of...
Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation regarding the image....
THE SAME HOUR— This is the first place in the Old Testament, where we meet with the division of time into _hours._ The Greeks ascribe the invention of them to Anaximander, who perhaps received it from...
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...
And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. WHOSO FALLETH NOT DOWN AND WORSHIPPETH SHALL THE SAME HOUR BE CAST INTO ... A BURNI...
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...
BURNING FIERY FURNACE] a form of death penalty mentioned in Jeremiah 29:22 as inflicted by Nebuchadnezzar....
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...
SHALL BE CAST... — This punishment was not uncommon among the Babylonians. One instance of it is mentioned by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:22; see also _Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archœology,_ v...
וּ מַן ־דִּי ־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְ יִסְגֻּ֑ד
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...
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,...
Respecting the required adoration, nothing but outward observance was needed. King Nebuchadnezzar did not exact a verbal profession of belief in this deity, that is, in the divinity of the statue whic...
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...
AND WHOSO FALLETH NOT DOWN AND WORSHIPPETH,.... Who refuses to worship it, or wilfully neglects it; which would be interpreted a contempt of it, and of the king's command: SHALL IN THE SAME HOUR BE C...
_And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace._ Ver. 6. _And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, &c._] Fire and sword are idola...
_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,...
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...
This was a punishment usual among the Chaldeans, to scorch, roast, and burn offenders with fire, JEREMIAH 29:22: see /APC 1MA 7:3. And this the king of Moab imitated, 2 Kings 3:27 Amos 2:1
Daniel 3:6 whoever H4479 not H3809 down H5308 (H8748) worship H5457 (H8748) cast H7412 (H8729) immediately...
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...
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 2:12; Daniel 2:13; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 3:11; Daniel 3:15;...
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...