Daniel 3:29

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 3:28-30

The strict observations that were made, super visum corporis?on inspecting their bodies, by the princes and governors, and all the great men who were present upon this public occasion, and who could not be supposed partial in favour of the confessors, contributed much to the clearing of this miracle and the magnifying of the power and grace of God in it. That indeed a notable miracle has been done is manifest, and we cannot deny it, Acts 4:16. Let us now see what effect it had upon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 3:29

Therefore I make a decree ,.... Or, a "decree is made by me" F23 מני שים טעם "a me proponitur edictum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Broughtonus; "a me positum decretum", Montanus, Cocceius, Michaelis. ; which is as follows: that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego ; anything indecent, blasphemous, or by way of contempt: he does not give orders that their God should be worshipped or signify... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 3:29

Speak any thing amiss - Though by the decree the king does not oblige the people to worship the true God, yet he obliges them to treat him with reverence. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 3:29

Verse 29 Here Nebuchadnezzar is urged further forward — for we must use this phrase — since he does not take up the worship of one God from his heart, and bid his errors finally farewell. Hence it is as if God was thrusting him violently forward, while he promulgates this edict. The edict is by itself pious and praiseworthy; but, as we have already said, Nebuchadnezzar is borne along by a blind and turbulent impulse, because piety had no root in his heart. Though he is always intent on this... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 3:1-30

EXPOSITION THE GOLDEN IMAGE , AND THE FIERY FURNACE . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 3:28-30

Salvations demonstrate the Saviour. "There is no other God that can deliver after this sort" ( Daniel 3:29 ). Explain the king's real state of mind. He did not own Jehovah as the only God, nor command him to be worshipped. He only declared him to be able to save his servants as none other could, and commanded that there should be no reviling of his Name. Curious commingling of tolerance and intolerance. So slowly do men learn the principles of religions and ecclesiastical freedom. (Matthew... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 3:28-30

Total reversal of Fortune's wheel. During this momentous crisis, no change had passed over the convictions, resolves, or characters of these godly men—except such advancement in strength and courage as was always in progress. But upon their outward condition a great change was impending. A quiet revolution was proceeding outside them. I. A CHANGE IN THE PLACE ACCORDED TO GOD . This was the central aim of the young Hebrews' resistance, that Jehovah might be recognized as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Daniel 3:29

Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. The versions agree with the Massoretic text here, only that all put the crime, "speaking anything amiss," more strongly than we find it in the Massoretic recension, שׁלה is amended by the Massoretes to שׁלוּ ,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Daniel 3:29

Therefore I make a decree - Margin, “A decree is made by me.” Chaldee, “And from me a decree is laid down,” or enacted. This Chaldee word (טעם ṭe‛êm) means, properly, “taste, flavor;” then “judgment,” the power of “discerning” - apparently as of one who can judge of “wine,” etc., by the taste; then the sentence, the decree which is consequent on an act of judging - always retaining the idea that the determination or decree is based on a conception of the true merits of the case. The decree in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 3:29

Daniel 3:29. Therefore, I make a decree, &c. He issues a royal edict, strictly forbidding any to speak evil of the God of Israel. We have reason to think that both the sins and the troubles of Israel had given great, though no just occasion to the Chaldeans to blaspheme the God of Israel, and it is likely Nebuchadnezzar himself had encouraged them to do it; but now, though he is no true convert, nor is influenced to worship him, yet he resolves never to speak evil of him again, nor to... read more

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