The fire had no power— The several expressions here used are meant to shew, that not the least injury was received from the fire. The expressions rise in fine order, and the climax is beautiful. The fire not only had no prevailing power over their bodies, but neither was a hair of their head burnt, nor their flowing robes singed, nor even the smell of fire had passed on them. Compare this with Isaiah 43:2.
Verse 27. _UPON WHOSE BODIES THE FIRE HAD NO POUTER_] The heathens boasted that their priests could walk on burning coals unhurt; and _Virgil_ mentions this of the priests of Apollo of Soracte: - Sum...
AND THE PRINCES, GOVERNORS, AND CAPTAINS - Notes, Daniel 3:3. AND THE KING’S COUNSELORS - Notes, Daniel 3:24. BEING GATHERED TOGETHER, SAW THESE MEN - There could be no mistake about the reality of t...
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...
UPON WHOSE BODIES THE FIRE HAD NO POWER. They had been completely protected against the fire. God had been. wall around them. Not only were they unhurt but there was not even the smell of fire on the...
SAW. kept gazing upon. CHANGED: or, discolored....
_princes, governors, and captains_ SATRAPS, PRAEFECTS, _and_ GOVERNORS. See on Daniel 3:2. _counsellers_ MINISTERS (Daniel 3:24). _upon whose bodies_, &c. THAT _the fire had no power_ UPON THEIR BOD...
The three youths delivered from the flames....
e. PHILANTHROPIC DECREE TEXT: Daniel 3:26-30 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Mos...
And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither we...
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...
וּ֠ מִֽתְכַּנְּשִׁין אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֞א סִגְנַיָּ֣א וּ פַחֲוָתָא֮...
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 REWARDED Daniel 3:19-30 It is only when we reach the fire that we become aware of the presence of the divine Companion, walking beside us as if treading the dew-besprinkled glades of Paradise...
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...
True; not fickle, and liable to change. (Calmet) --- Opera mutas non mutas consilium. (St. Augustine, Confessions i. 4.) --- Cappel. argues from this confession, that the piece is not divine, as they...
Reader! pray observe what is here said. Nebuchadnezzar is astonished, and so are his courtiers. But is this all? Yes! for had there been more than astonishment and any grace wrought in the heart, the...
Daniel relates how the satraps were gathered together with the leaders, prefects, and councilors of the king. The gathering was simply a collection of numbers, and if they deliberated about anything o...
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 THE PRINCES, GOVERNORS, AND CAPTAINS, AND THE KING'S COUNSELLORS, BEING GATHERED TOGETHER,.... Either by the order of the king, or of their own accord, to see the miracle that was wrought: SAW TH...
And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither wer...
_Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the furnace_ As near as he durst come; _and spake_ With a milder tone than before, God having abated the fire of his fury; _and said, Ye servants of the...
And the princes, governors, and captains, the representative rulers of his entire empire, AND THE KING'S COUNSELORS, the members of his own privy council, BEING GATHERED TOGETHER, SAW THESE MEN, UPON...
The Miraculous Preservation of God's Servants...
19-27 Let Nebuchadnezzar heat his furnace as hot as he can, a few minutes will finish the torment of those cast into it; but hell-fire tortures, and yet does not kill. Those who worshipped the beast...
SAW THESE MEN, with great admiration, for the satisfaction of all by their sight of them, and by their smell. All the works of God are perfect, and there was nothing here wanting to make this wonderfu...
Daniel 3:27 satraps H324 administrators H5460 governors H6347 kings H4430 counselors H1907 together H3673 (H8723) saw H2370
‘Then Nebuchanezzar came near to the opening of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here.” Then Shadrac...
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...
_That they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated._ THE FIERY FURNACE I. THE PERSON WHO CAUSED IT TO BE MADE. This Oriental despot was then in the zenith of his g...
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...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 3:27 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were completely untouched by the fire. Their clothes were not HARMED nor their hair SINGED, and they did not even SMELL OF FIRE—a
_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 17:46; 1 Samuel 17:47; 2 Kings 19:19; Acts 2:6; Acts 26:26;...
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...