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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 3:21-23

‘Then these men were bound in their hose, their turbans and their cloaks, and their other clothing, and were cast into the midst of the burning, fiery furnace. As a result, because the king’s command was urgently demanding, and the furnace intensely hot, the flame of the fire slew those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, fell, bound, down into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.’ Their fate was repeated twice to emphasise its... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 3:1-30

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... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 3:23

All this is expressed with emphasis, to make the power of God more glorious in their preservation; for that flame that slew the executioners might much more easily have suffocated the three children before they fell down. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Daniel 3:8-27

HOMILETICSSECT. XIII.—THE FIERY FURNACE (Chap. Daniel 3:8-27)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 Sodom. While the multitude were falling prostrate before the golden image, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were in their closet on their knees. Where was Daniel? Probably now, as often, at some distance from the court. Wherever he is, he is worshipping the God of heaven. If at hand, like his three... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Daniel 3:1-30

Daniel 3:0 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 modern phrase, they met his injunctions with "passive resistance." III. We have here an illustration of the support which Jesus gives to His followers when they are called to suffer for His sake. IV. We see here that in the matter of religious intolerance, as well as in some other things, the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Daniel 3:1-30

Chapter 3Now 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 Babylonian Empire was to be replaced by an inferior empire, the Medo-Persian Empire.But Nebuchadnezzar [in defiance of God and the revelation of God] made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits [or sixty cubits], and the breath thereof was six cubits ( Daniel 3:1 ):You're... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 3:1-30

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 was twenty four cubits high: then the image itself was only thirty six. This nearly agrees with Diodorus Siculus, who says that Xerxes found an image of gold in the temple of Belus forty feet in length. But why did Nebuchadnezzar make this idol? Some think, to represent Bel-baal or Belus, which... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 3:19-28

Daniel 3:19-28That they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.The Fiery FurnaceI. THE PERSON WHO CAUSED IT TO BE MADE. This Oriental despot was then in the zenith of his glory. He was the acknowledged master of the world. The pomp and pageantry, of that religious gathering has never been surpassed. In deep awe, “they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up” (v. 4). II. THE PERSONS WHO WERE CAST INTO THIS BURNING FIERY FURNACE AND WHY. These... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 3:23

Dan 3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Ver. 23. And these three men … fell down bound.] Their binders were burnt, but not their bonds so soon, lest the glory of the miracle should have been thereby defaced. Into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ] Where yet these holy salamanders took no hurt. In the creatures there is an essence and a faculty whereby the work, as in fire is the substance and the quality... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Daniel 3:23

fell: Daniel 6:16, Daniel 6:17, Psalms 34:19, Psalms 66:11, Psalms 66:12, Psalms 124:1-Deuteronomy :, Jeremiah 38:6, Lamentations 3:52-1 Timothy :, 2 Corinthians 1:8-2 Samuel :, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 4:13 Reciprocal: Esther 3:4 - he had told read more

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