Daniel 3:4

Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, The arguments of the persecutor are in brief, Turn or burn....

It is afterwards added — A _herald cried out lustily, or _among the multitude. This latter explanation does not suit so well — the herald crying amidst the multitude — -since there were a great concourse of nations, and the kingdom of Babylon comprehended many provinces. _The herald, _therefore, _cried with a loud voice, An edict is gone forth for you, O nations, peoples, and tongues. _This would strike them with terror, since the king made no exception to his command for every province to worship his idol; for each person would observe the rest, and when every one sees the whole multitude _obedient, _no one would dare to refuse; hence all liberty is at an end. It now follows, — When _ye hear the sound of the trumpet or horn, harp, pipe, psaltery, sackbut, etc ., ye must fall down and adore the image. But whoever did not fall down before it, should be cast the same hour into a burning fi...

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 bigotry cause men to require their subjects to follow their religion, whether right or wrong, and when worldly interest allures, and punishment overawes, few refuse. This is easy to the careless, the sensual, and the infidel, who are the greatest number; and most will go their ways. There is nothing so bad which the careless world will not be drawn to by a concert of music, or driven to by a fiery furnace. By such methods, false worship has been set up and maintained....

Verse Daniel 3:4. _THEN A HERALD CRIED ALOUD_] כרוזא קרא בחיל _caroza kara_ _bechayil_, "a crier called with might." _A bedel cried mightili_. - Old MS. Bible....

THEN AN HERALD CRIED ALOUD - Margin, as in Chaldee, “with might.” He made a loud proclamation. A “herald” here means a public crier. TO YOU IT IS COMMANDED - Margin, “they commanded.” Literally, “to you commanding” (plural); that is, the king has commanded. O PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES - The empire of Babylon was made up of different nations, speaking quite different languages. The representatives of these nations were assembled on this occasion, and the command would extend to all. There was evidently no exception made in favor of the scruples of any, and the order would include the Hebrews as well as others. It should be observed, however, that no others but the Hebrews would have any scruples on the subject. They were all accustomed to worship idols, and the worship of one god did not prevent their doing homage also to another. It accorded with the prev

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

THEN AN HERALD CRIED ALOUD,.... That his voice might be heard all over the plain; or if it should be thought that one was not sufficient to be heard throughout, which probably was the case, and where; so great a number being assembled together, all could not hear one man, the singular may be put for the plural; and many being set in different places in the plain, and speaking different languages, might proclaim when the image was dedicated, as follows: TO YOU IT IS COMMANDED; by the king's authority: O PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES; the several kingdoms, states, and provinces, that belonged to the Babylonian monarchy, and spoke different languages, as now represented by their several governors and officers; as the Armenians, Parthians, Medes, Persians, c....

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...

HERALD. Chaldee. _karo_. _a_ '. Not from the Greek _kerux,_ but an old Persian word _khresic',_. crier, from which comes the Chaldee verb _k_ evar, to make. proclamation, as in Daniel 5:29. PEOPLE. peoples, or nations. NATIONS. races, or tribes. LANGUAGES. tongues. Figure of speech _Catabasis._ App-6....