John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 3:22
And therefore, because the king's commandment was urgent ,.... Or was ordered to be obeyed in haste, and with expedition and dispatch, hence the men were cast into the furnace with clothes on; or those that cast them were not so careful of themselves: and the furnace exceeding hot ; being heated seven times more than usual: the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego ; which came out of the furnace, being so excessive hot, and the smoke along... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 3:19-27
In these verses we have, I. The casting of these three faithful servants of God into the fiery furnace. Nebuchadnezzar had himself known and owned so much of the true God that, one would have thought, though his pride and vanity induced him to make this golden image, and set it up to be worshipped, yet what these young men now said (whom he had formerly found to be wiser than all his wise men) would revive his convictions, and at least engage him to excuse them; but it proved quite otherwise.... read more