Darby's translation notes (1890)
Daniel 3:5
3:5 cornet, (b-11) Or 'horn.' see Note, Leviticus 25:10 , and cf. Joshua 6:5 . sambuca, (c-14) A stringed instrument.
3:5 cornet, (b-11) Or 'horn.' see Note, Leviticus 25:10 , and cf. Joshua 6:5 . sambuca, (c-14) A stringed instrument.
Verse Daniel 3:5. _THE SOUND OF THE CORNET_] There is not less difficulty in ascertaining the precise meaning of these _musical instruments_ than there is in the _offices_ in Daniel 3:2. קרנא karna,...
THAT AT WHAT TIME YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE CORNET - It would not be practicable to determine with precision what kind of instruments of music are denoted by the words used in this verse. They were, do...
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...
CORNET, &C. These names are supposed to be Greek, or from the Greek; but Athenaeus,. Greek grammarian (about A.D. 200-300), says the _sambuke_ ("sack-but") was. Syriac invention. Strabo, in his geogra...
_cornet_ lit. _horn_: so Daniel 3:7_; Daniel 3:10; Daniel 3:15_; elsewhere in this sense only in the -ram's _horn_," Joshua 6:5. The usual Hebrew name f
Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation regarding the image....
HARP— The original word is קיתרס _caithros,_ which seems to be denominated from the _citron-tree,_ the product of Armenia, Media, and Persia; the tree itself might take its name from the ground in whi...
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...
That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set u...
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...
SACKBUT] properly _trigon_, a stringed instrument with a triangular frame: so in Daniel 3:7; Daniel 3:10; Daniel 3:15. PSALTERY] psanterin = Gk. _psalterion_—a stringed instrument. DULCIMER] RM 'bagpi...
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...
THE CORNET. — On the musical instruments, see _Exc._ B....
בְּ עִדָּנָ֡א דִּֽי ־תִשְׁמְע֡וּן קָ֣ל קַרְנָ֣א...
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...
_Symphony. This and several other terms seem taken from the Greek, though the scythara and sambuca came originally from Chaldea. (Calmet) --- Down. This and offering incense were sometimes considered...
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,...
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...
THAT AT WHAT TIME YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE CORNET,.... So called of the horn of which it was made; a sort of trumpet; so the Jews had trumpets of rams' horns: FLUTE; or pipe, or whistle, so called fo...
Daniel 3:5 [That] at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the kin...
_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,...
that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, the horn or tuba of the ancients, FLUTE, the reed-flute, or shepherd's pipe, HARP, a small four-stringed harp like a zither, SACKBUT, a triangular st...
THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...
DULCIMER: Or, singing. Cald. Symphony...
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...
ALL KINDS OF MUSIC, i.e. wind and stringed instruments of various sorts and fashions, for we have here Syrian and Greek ones, as appears by the words, though in Chaldee letters, for this mighty monarc...
Daniel 3:5 time H5732 hear H8086 (H8748) sound H7032 horn H7162 flute H4953 harp H7030 (H8675)...
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...
_The sound of the cornet, flute, harp._ EASTERN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS The instruments enumerated here are mostly still in use in the present time, but some of them have become obsolete. The cornet is a...
_To you it is commanded, O people._ THE IMPORTANCE OF THE IMPERATIVE We cannot do without this word “command” in our religious education. It is a Divine word. It would be instructive to trace the his...
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 3:10; 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...