Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel 3:1
Of gold] not necessarily solid, but perhaps overlaid. Threescore cubits.. six cubits] 90 feet by 9, or rather more. Dura is represented by the mounds of Dura, some 12 m. SSE. of Babylon.
Of gold] not necessarily solid, but perhaps overlaid. Threescore cubits.. six cubits] 90 feet by 9, or rather more. Dura is represented by the mounds of Dura, some 12 m. SSE. of Babylon.
CHAPTER III _Nebuchadnezzar, having erected an image, whose height (including_ _probably a very high pedestal) was sixty cubits, and the_ _breadth six, ordered a numerous assembly, which he had_ _...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING MADE AN IMAGE OF GOLD - The time when he did this is not mentioned; nor is it stated in whose honor, or for what design, this colossal image was erected. In the Greek and Arabi...
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...
IMAGE. This could not have been an image of. human being. The height and breadth are out of all proportion for this; the former being one to ten instead of one to six.. figure drawn on this scale, wil...
_Nebuchadnezzar_ Sept., Theod., Pesh. prefix -In the eighteenth year," which would be the year before Jerusalem was finally taken by the Chaldaeans (2 Kings 25:8). Sept. also has an addition stating t...
Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation regarding the image....
NEBUCHADNEZZAR—MADE AN IMAGE OF GOLD— But what did this image or statue represent? Grotius insists that it was the _statue_ of Nabopalassar, the father of Nebuchadnezzar, whom this prince chose to ran...
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...
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Between the vis...
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...
AN IMAGE. — If this image was made after the manner described (Isaiah 44:9), the body was formed of wood, and the whole, when properly shaped, was covered with thin plates of gold. As the height of th...
נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ צְלֵ֣ם דִּֽי ־דְהַ֔ב...
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...
Nebuchadnezzar the king made (a) an image of gold, whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. (a) Under...
Statue. It was the figure of a man, (Calmet) the dimensions 90 feet high and 9 broad (Worthington) being disproportionate; though a man might be represented on the pillar. Some take it for Nabolpolass...
CONTENTS The dedication of a golden image for worship, is appointed by Nebuchadnezzar; the people commanded to bow before it: the Jews are accused of neglecting it, and are cast into the furnace, but...
Very probably this statue was not erected by King Nebuchadnezzar within a short period, as the Prophet does not notice how many years had passed away; for it is not probable that it was erected within...
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...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING MADE AN IMAGE OF GOLD,.... Not of solid gold; but either of a plate of gold, and hollow within; or of wood overlaid with gold; for otherwise it must have took up a prodigious q...
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Ver. 1. _Nebu...
_Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold_ How soon this image was erected, after the dream in his second year, is uncertain. The Greek and Arabic interpreters suppose it to have been in _the eighteenth y...
Nebuchadnezzar, the king, at some later period of his reign, MADE AN IMAGE OF GOLD, an immense idol figure, probably in the form of a human being, WHOSE HEIGHT WAS THREESCORE CUBITS AND THE BREADTH TH...
THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...
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...
DANIEL CHAPTER 3 Nebuchadnezzar setting up an image commandeth all persons to worship it, DANIEL 3:1. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are accused of disobeying the command, DANIEL 3:8. The king threat...
Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar H5020 king H4430 made H5648 (H8754) image H6755 gold H1722 height H7314 sixty H8361 cubits...
‘Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and its breadth six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.' This image of gold which...
AN IMAGE OF GOLD The attempt of this great king of Babylon to unify the religions of his empire by self-deification will be repeated by the beast, the last head of the Gentile world-dominion (Revelat...
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...
_Nebuchadnezzar, the king, made an image of gold._ GIGANTIC IDOLS We are not without historical confirmation of the narrative as to the existence of gigantic idols of gold among the Babylonians. Hero...
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...
1 Kings 12:28; 2 Kings 19:17; 2 Kings 19:18; Acts 17:29; Acts 19:26;
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...
Made an image — Perhaps he did this, that he might seem no ways inclined to the Jews, or their religion, whereof the Chaldeans might be jealous, seeing he had owned their God to be greatest, and had p...