Daniel 3:20

_AND HE COMMANDED THE MOST MIGHTY MEN THAT WERE IN HIS ARMY TO BIND SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO, AND TO CAST THEM INTO THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

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 and his image, have no rest, no pause, no moment free from pain, Revelation 14:10; Revelation 14:11. Now was fulfilled in the letter that great promise, Isaiah 43:2, When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned. Leaving it to that God who preserved them in the fire, to bring them out, they walked up and down in the midst, supported and encouraged by the presence of the Son of God. Those who suffer for Christ, have his presence in their sufferings, even in the fiery furnace, and in the valley of the shadow...

Verse 20. _THE MOST MIGHTY MEN_] The generals, or chief officers of his army; not _strong_ men, there was no need of such....

AND HE COMMANDED THE MOST MIGHTY MEN THAT WERE IN HIS ARMY - Margin, “mighty of strength.” Chaldee, “And to mighty men, mighty men of strength who were in his army, he said.” He employed the strongest men that could be found for this purpose....

EXPOSITION DANIEL 3:1 THE GOLDEN IMAGE, AND THE FIERY FURNACE. DANIEL 3:1 NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING MADE AN IMAGE OF GOLD, WHOSE HEIGHT WAS THREE SCORE CUBITS, AND THE BREADTH THEREOF AIR CUBITS: HE SET IT UP IN THE PLAIN OF DURA, IN THE PROVINCE OF BABYLON. The Septuagint Version is full of redundance and interpolation, "In the eighteenth year King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled cities and countries, and all those dwelling (in them)over the earth from India even to Ethiopia, made a golden image; the height of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits, and set it up in a plain within the boundary of the provinc

AND HE COMMANDED THE MOST MIGHTY MEN THAT WERE IN HIS ARMY,.... The most famous for courage of mind, and strength of body, that were in all his army: TO BIND SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO either their hands or their feet, or both; unless it can be thought that they were all three bound together in one bundle, and so cast into the furnace; which is not improbable, as Gejerus observes; seeing the king afterwards wondered to see them walk separately in the furnace: there was no need to bind them, for they would not have resisted; and if he ordered this to secure them from the power of their God, it was vain and foolish: AND TO CAST THEM INTO THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE: if they were all three bound together, it required some able bodied men to take them up and cast them in, especially if the furnace was above them; though it is more probable that it was a more depressed place, or below th...

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 3:26) Daniel 3:1 . He had an immense statue of gold made, the image of a man, no doubt, and he set it up in the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. It was idolatry and the deification of man. Idolatry and the deification of man are then the first moral characteristics mentioned which are to prevail during the times of the Gentiles. The times of the

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 king thereupon had them thrown into a burning fiery furnace heated seven times hotter than usual. But the fire had no power to consume them, and there appeared walking by the side of the three men in the midst of the furnace a fourth whose aspect was like a son of the gods. The message of this chapter to the men of the Maccabean age is obvious. The devotion and fidelity of the three heroes who faced the fiery furnace rather than prove traitors to their God is held up as an example to those whom Antiochus Epiphanes was tempting to betray their Lord, and their marvellous rescue is held up as a Divine deliverance, and an illustration of the fulfilment of the prophecy of Deutero-Isaiah: When th...

AND HE COMMANDED THE MOST MIGHTY MEN THAT WERE IN HIS ARMY. The margin says that he commanded men "mighty in strength." This is the meaning of the original. Such men were chosen because he fancied that they might resist. These bound them hand and foot, preparatory to the dreadful fate in store for them. TO CAST THEM INTO THE BURNING, FIERY FURNACE. We know from other sources that the burning furnace was. method of capital punishment in vogue in this part of the world. It is referred to in Jeremiah 29:22 as an evil that would be suffered by the Israelites in captivity. It is also alluded to in Hosea 7:7, and in the apocryphal 2d Macc. 7:6. The ancient Persians employed it, and. traveler in Persia during the Middle Ages, Chardin, speaks of two ovens that were kept ready heated. whole mont

MOST MIGHTY MEN. Chaldee. mighty [ones] of strength. TO BIND. Chaldee. _kephath._ Occurs only here and verses: Daniel 3:21; Daniel 3:23; Daniel 3:24....