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Daniel 3:9
They spake and said to the King Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever! this being the ordinary form of address in Babylonia.
They spake and said to the King Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever! this being the ordinary form of address in Babylonia.
O KING, LIVE FOR EVER - A customary form of address to a monarch, implying that long life was regarded as an eminent blessing. See the notes at Daniel 2:4....
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...
_spake_ ANSWERED (R.V.): see on Daniel 2:20. _the king Nebuchadnezzar_ NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING, the regular order in Aramaic (Daniel 3:1; Daniel 3:5;...
The accusation brought against the three Jewish youths, and their answer to the king....
b. PERNICIOUS DENOUNCEMENT TEXT: Daniel 3:8-12 8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews. 9 They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king,...
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. O KING, LIVE FOREVER. A preface of flattery is closely akin to the cruelty that follows. So, Acts 24:2, etc., Tertullus, in a...
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...
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...
עֲנֹו֙ וְ אָ֣מְרִ֔ין לִ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֑א...
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...
It is very evident, that the whole design of this new dunghill God set up, was, with a view to criminate the faithful Jews. And as upon the late occasion, at the instance of Daniel; those three men we...
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...
THEY SPAKE AND SAID TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR,.... Having got access unto him, and within his hearing, they expressed themselves in the following manner: O KING, LIVE FOR EVER; this they said to show their f...
_They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever._ Ver. 9. They spake and said, … O king, live for ever.] Thus they insinuate themselves by flattery. So Acts 24:2,3 ....
_At that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews_ It is not improbable that these Chaldeans were such as envied these friends of Daniel their preferments, having perhaps themselves expe...
8-18 True devotion calms the spirit, quiets and softens it, but superstition and devotion to false gods inflame men's passions. The matter is put into a little compass, Turn, or burn. Proud men are s...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Daniel 3:9 spoke H6032 (H8754) said H560 (H8750) King H4430 Nebuchadnezzar H5020 king H4430 live H2418 ...
‘They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king live for ever. You, O king have made a decree, that every man who will hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulci...
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...
_O king, live for ever._ THE GOLDEN IMAGE SET UP These last words, “O king, live for ever,” were designed by those who uttered them as the expression of the most gross and servile adulation, and the...
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. XIII.—THE FIERY FURNACE (Chap. Daniel 3:8) God has never left Himself without a witness. An Enoch and a Noah found on the eve of the Flood; an Abraham in Chaldea, and a Lot in Sodo...
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 2:4; Daniel 5:10; Daniel 6:21; Daniel 6:6; Daniel 3:4;...
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...