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Daniel 3:8-18
The accusation brought against the three Jewish youths, and their answer to the king.
The accusation brought against the three Jewish youths, and their answer to the king.
Verse Daniel 3:8. _ACCUSED THE JEWS._] That is, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. The other Jews were left unnoticed; and probably at this time Daniel was too high to be touched; but we may rest assur...
WHEREFORE AT THAT TIME CERTAIN CHALDEANS CAME NEAR, AND ACCUSED THE JEWS - It does not appear that they accused the Jews in general, but particularly Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Daniel 3:12. They...
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...
CERTAIN. men: probably our grandees. Plural of Chaldee. _g_ ebar. App-14. CHALDEANS. See note on Daniel 1:4....
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,...
Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. WHEREFORE AT THAT TIME CERTAIN CHALDEANS CAME NEAR, AND ACCUSED THE JEWS - literally, ate the torn limbs or flesh of the Je...
3:8 Chaldeans (d-6) Strictly, 'men, Chaldeans;' so 'men, Jews,' ver. 12. 'Men' is from _ Geber_ , and appears in vers. 12, 13, 20-27; ch. 6.5, 11, 15, 24: see Job 3:3 . accused (e-10) Or 'spoke agains...
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...
CHALDEANS] a special offcial class, moved by jealousy. 12. See Daniel 2:49, 14. _Is it_ TRUE.. DO NOT YE SERVE] RV 'Is it of purpose.. that ye serve not.' Nebuchadnezzar is willing to put a favourab...
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...
WHEREFORE. — _i.e.,_ because certain Jews were noticed to be absent at the time. It is natural to suppose that the promotion of three men of Jewish extraction would have been viewed with the greatest...
כָּ ל ־קֳבֵ֤ל דְּנָה֙ בֵּהּ ־זִמְנָ֔א קְרִ֖בו
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...
_Jews: the three children whom they viewed with a jealous eye. Daniel was too much exalted, or was absent with other Jews._...
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...
Although their intention is not here expressed who accused Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, yet we gather from this event that the thing was most probably done on purpose when the king set up the gold...
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...
WHEREFORE AT THAT TIME CERTAIN CHALDEANS CAME NEAR,.... That is, to King Nebuchadnezzar, either in his palace at Babylon, or more likely in the plain of Dura: AND ACCUSED THE JEWS; particularly Shadr...
Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. Ver. 8. _Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews._] All the Jews are accused, because some r...
_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...
THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...
Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans, who were filled with jealousy on account of the promotion of the strangers, while they were obliged to be satisfied with inferior positions, CAME NEAR AND ACC...
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 3:8 Therefore H6903 H3606 that H1836 time H2166 certain H1400 Chaldeans H3779 forward H7127 (H8754) accused...
‘For this reason at that time certain Chaldeans came near and brought accusations (literally ‘ate their pieces' i.e. chewed over publicly what they had heard) against the Judeans.' We are probably to...
CHALDEANS Compare the conduct of Daniel, (Daniel 2:24)....
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...
1 Peter 4:3; 1 Peter 4:4; Acts 16:20; Acts 17:6; Acts 28:22;...
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...