They were endued with a strong faith in their God, not only as to his power, which was omnipotent and unlimited, but also as to his will, which readily inclined him to succour his servants in their distress, for his name's sake, according to his promise and the saints experience in the like cases of extremity.
Verse 17. _IF IT BE SO_] Thou mayest cast us into the furnace; the terror of it has no effect on our minds to induce us to alter the resolution we have taken, nor shall the fire change our purpose. W...
IF IT BE SO - Chaldee, איתי הן _hên_ _'ı̂ythay_ - “so it is.” That is, “this is true, that the God whom we serve can save us.” The idea is not, as would seem in our translation, “if we are to be cast...
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...
IF IT BE SO OUR GOD WHOM WE SERVE IS ABLE TO DELIVER US. The king had said: "Ye shall be cast into the burning, fiery furnace, and who is that God who will be able to deliver you out of my hand?" This...
IS ABLE TO DELIVER US. The Massoretic pointing requires this punctuation: "to deliver us; from the burning fiery furnace He will deliver us"....
FULL OF. filled with, form. appearance. visage. countenance....
THE. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "thy"....
_If it be_so, &c. IF OUR GOD _whom we serve is able to deliver us_, HE WILL DELIVER _us from the burning fiery furnace_, AND OUT OF _thine hand, O king_, i.e. we shall be harmed neither by the fire, n...
The accusation brought against the three Jewish youths, and their answer to the king....
IF IT BE SO— _Behold. There is a God whom we worship, who is able to snatch us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us from thy hand, O king._ Houbigant. "As we are firmly persuaded of his...
c. PROFESSION OF DEDICATION TEXT: Daniel 3:13-18 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king. 14 N...
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. IF IT BE SO. Vatablus translates, 'Assuredly.' The English...
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...
IF IT BE SO. — The meaning becomes clearer by omitting the word “so.” The sentence will then stand as follows: “If our God is able to deliver us... then He will do so; but if He does not deliver us, b...
הֵ֣ן אִיתַ֗י אֱלָהַ֨נָא֙ דִּֽי ־אֲנַ֣חְנָא פָֽלְחִ֔ין...
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...
If it be [so], our God whom we serve is (h) able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king. (h) They have two points as their foundation: first...
There needs no comment on these verses, only to observe, that the dreadful fury of the enemies of God and of his Christ, have been always the same, as in the instance of this man. Reader! have you nev...
And when they add — _God is sufficiently powerful to preserve us; and if not, we are prepared for death, _they point out to us what ought to raise our minds above all trials, namely, the preciousness...
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...
IF IT BE SO,.... That we must be cast into the fiery furnace, as thou hast threatened: OUR GOD WHOM WE SERVE; for though they did not serve the gods of the Babylonians, they did not live without God...
If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king. Ver. 17. _Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us._]...
_If it be so_ If we are brought into this strait: if we must be thrown into the fiery furnace unless we serve thine image; _our God whom we serve is able to deliver us_, &c. As we are firmly persuaded...
THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...
If it be so, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, rather, "If our God is able to deliver us," AND HE WILL DELIVER US OUT OF THINE HAND, O KING. This was not ca...
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...
Daniel 3:17 If H2006 God H426 we H586 serve H6399 (H8750) is H383 able H3202 (H8750) deliver...
AND HE WILL DELIVER US The three Jews, faithful to God while the nation of Israel far from their land bear no testimony, are a fit type of the Jewish remnant in the last days (Isaiah 1:9); (Romans 11...
Daniel 3:17 Let us take three points in the history of these three young men. I. Their resolution. They were entirely in the dark as to whether God would really come down, as it were, and interfere t...
Daniel 3:16 I. We can scarcely sufficiently admire the answer of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. There is an independence of speech in it which, when we consider the circumstances in which the speake...
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...
_They serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up._ THE GOLDEN IMAGE In last chapter we read of an image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in vision. In this chapter our attention...
_If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace._ OUR SURE DEFENCE These souls were under the strongest possible temptation to do that which would have been a...
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...
1 Samuel 17:37; 1 Samuel 17:46; Acts 20:24; Acts 21:13; Acts 27:20;...
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...