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 king hath set up: AT WHAT TIME YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE CORNET - a wind instrument, like the French horn, is meant. FLUTE - a pipe or pipes, not blown transversely, as our "flute," but by mouth-pieces at the end. SACKBUT - a triangular stringed instrument, having short strings, the sound being on a high sharp key. PSALTERY - a kind of harp. DULCIMER - a bagpipe, consisting of two pipes thrust through a leather bag, emitting a sweet plaintive sound. [Chaldaic Sumponya, the modern Italian Zampogna, Asiatic Zambonja, Hebrew cuwmponªyaah (H5481), Greek...

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 3:5. _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, here translated _cornet_, is the common _blowing horn_, which makes a deep and hollow sound, as well as one shrill and piercing. _FLUTE_] משרוקיתא _mashrokitha_, from שרק _sharak, to_ _whistle, shriek_. A wind instrument which made a strong and shrill noise, such as the _hautbois_ or _clarionet_. _HARP_] קיתרס _kithros, cytharus_; κιθαρα. Some kind of stringed instrument. It seems to be formed from the Greek word. _SACKBUT_] סבכא _sabbecha_. The Greek has it σαμβυκη, from which

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, doubtless, in many respects different from those which are in use now, though they may have belonged to the same general class, and may have been constructed on substantially the same principles. A full inquiry into the kinds of musical instruments in use among the Hebrews may be found in the various treatises on the subject in Ugolin’s “Thesau Ant. Sacra.” tom. xxxii. Compare also the notes at Isaiah 5:12. The Chaldee word rendered “cornet” - קרנא _qar__e__nâ'_ - the same as the Hebrew word קרן _qeren_ - means a “horn,” as e. g., of an ox, stag, ram. Then it means a wind instrument

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

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 for its hissing noise; it is used of the shepherd's pipe or whistle; see Zechariah 10:8, HARP; an instrument of music used by David, and much in use among the Jews, and other nations; SACKBUT; or "sambuca"; which, according to Athenaeus g, was a four stringed instrument, an invention of the Syrians; and Strabo h, a Greek writer, speaks of it as a barbarous name, as the eastern ones were reckoned by the Grecians: PSALTERY; this seems to be a Greek word, as does the next that follows, rendered "dulcimer"; but in the original text is "symphonia"; which does not signify symphony, or a concert or consort of music, but a p

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...

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 geography (54 B.C. A.D. 24), ascribes Greek music to Asia, and says: "the Athenians always showed their admiration of foreign customs". HARP. Chaldee. _kithros_. Greek. _kithara._ Terpander,. Greek musician (seventh century B. C), the father of Greek music, invented the _kithara_ with seven strings (Strabo says) instead of four, and one is sculptured on. monument of Assurbanipal (Lenormant, _La Divination chez les Chaldiens,_ pp 190, 191). SACKBUT. See note on "cornet", above. HOUR. moment. Chaldee sha' _ah_, as in verses: Daniel 3:3; Daniel 3:6;...

Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation regarding the image....