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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Daniel 3:17

They were endued with a strong faith in their God, not only as to his power, which was omnipotent and unlimited, but also as to his will, which readily inclined him to succour his servants in their distress, for his name's sake, according to his promise and the saints experience in the like cases of extremity.

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See also Daniel 3:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 17. _IF IT BE SO_] Thou mayest cast us into the furnace; the terror of it has no effect on our minds to induce us to alter the resolution we have taken, nor shall the fire change our purpose. W...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IF IT BE SO - Chaldee, איתי הן _hên_ _'ı̂ythay_ - “so it is.” That is, “this is true, that the God whom we serve can save us.” The idea is not, as would seem in our translation, “if we are to be cast...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    IF IT BE SO OUR GOD WHOM WE SERVE IS ABLE TO DELIVER US. The king had said: "Ye shall be cast into the burning, fiery furnace, and who is that God who will be able to deliver you out of my hand?" This...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IS ABLE TO DELIVER US. The Massoretic pointing requires this punctuation: "to deliver us; from the burning fiery furnace He will deliver us"....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FULL OF. filled with, form. appearance. visage. countenance....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "thy"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _If it be_so, &c. IF OUR GOD _whom we serve is able to deliver us_, HE WILL DELIVER _us from the burning fiery furnace_, AND OUT OF _thine hand, O king_, i.e. we shall be harmed neither by the fire, n...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The accusation brought against the three Jewish youths, and their answer to the king....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IF IT BE SO— _Behold. There is a God whom we worship, who is able to snatch us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us from thy hand, O king._ Houbigant. "As we are firmly persuaded of his...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. PROFESSION OF DEDICATION TEXT: Daniel 3:13-18 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king. 14 N...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. IF IT BE SO. Vatablus translates, 'Assuredly.' The English...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GOLDEN IMAGE AND THE FIERY FURNACE Nebuchadnezzar sets up a colossal golden image, and summons to its dedication all the officials of his empire, who are commanded to fall down and worship the ima...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 3 V1 King Nebuchadnezzar set up a gold image. It was 30 metres high and 3 metres wide. He set it up on the plain called Dura, in the d...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IF IT BE SO. — The meaning becomes clearer by omitting the word “so.” The sentence will then stand as follows: “If our God is able to deliver us... then He will do so; but if He does not deliver us, b...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֣ן אִיתַ֗י אֱלָהַ֨נָא֙ דִּֽי ־אֲנַ֣חְנָא פָֽלְחִ֔ין...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE IDOL OF GOLD, AND THE FAITHFUL THREE REGARDED as an instance of the use of historic fiction to inculcate the noblest truths, the third chapter of Daniel is not only superb in its imaginative gran...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LOYALTY SEVERELY TESTED Daniel 3:1-18 The king, at the close of the foregoing chapter, acknowledged the supremacy of Daniel's God, yet here he erects an image to Bel and to himself, demanding divine...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The next story is of the pride of Nebuchadnezzar in setting up in the plain of Dura a great golden image. This may have been connected with the interpretation of the dream Daniel had given. The head o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    If it be [so], our God whom we serve is (h) able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king. (h) They have two points as their foundation: first...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There needs no comment on these verses, only to observe, that the dreadful fury of the enemies of God and of his Christ, have been always the same, as in the instance of this man. Reader! have you nev...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    And when they add — _God is sufficiently powerful to preserve us; and if not, we are prepared for death, _they point out to us what ought to raise our minds above all trials, namely, the preciousness...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    After this general picture, we have, historically, the characteristic features of these empires, marking the condition into which they fall, through their departure from God-primarily and principally...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF IT BE SO,.... That we must be cast into the fiery furnace, as thou hast threatened: OUR GOD WHOM WE SERVE; for though they did not serve the gods of the Babylonians, they did not live without God...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king. Ver. 17. _Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us._]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _If it be so_ If we are brought into this strait: if we must be thrown into the fiery furnace unless we serve thine image; _our God whom we serve is able to deliver us_, &c. As we are firmly persuaded...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If it be so, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, rather, "If our God is able to deliver us," AND HE WILL DELIVER US OUT OF THINE HAND, O KING. This was not ca...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-18 True devotion calms the spirit, quiets and softens it, but superstition and devotion to false gods inflame men's passions. The matter is put into a little compass, Turn, or burn. Proud men are s...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 3:17 If H2006 God H426 we H586 serve H6399 (H8750) is H383 able H3202 (H8750) deliver...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    AND HE WILL DELIVER US The three Jews, faithful to God while the nation of Israel far from their land bear no testimony, are a fit type of the Jewish remnant in the last days (Isaiah 1:9); (Romans 11...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Daniel 3:17 Let us take three points in the history of these three young men. I. Their resolution. They were entirely in the dark as to whether God would really come down, as it were, and interfere t...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Daniel 3:16 I. We can scarcely sufficiently admire the answer of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. There is an independence of speech in it which, when we consider the circumstances in which the speake...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Daniel 3 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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Pride of Nebuchadnezzar and his punishment. The image of gold. The three Jews refuse to worship the image. Fiery furnace proven harmless. The king convinced. CHARACTERS: God, Nebuchadnezzar...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 w...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up._ THE GOLDEN IMAGE In last chapter we read of an image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in vision. In this chapter our attention...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace._ OUR SURE DEFENCE These souls were under the strongest possible temptation to do that which would have been a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar commands all peoples under his rule to worship a golden image. Daniel’s friends refuse, out of loyalty to their God. When God delivers them from the fiery furn...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS_ SECT. XIII.—THE FIERY FURNACE (Chap. Daniel 3:8) 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 Sodo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DANIEL 3:1 THE GOLDEN IMAGE, AND THE FIERY FURNACE. DANIEL 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose heigh

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now 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 B...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 17:37; 1 Samuel 17:46; Acts 20:24; Acts 21:13; Acts 27:20;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S IMAGE OF GOLD Daniel 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Daniel in Babylon. (1) How Daniel came to be in Babylon. When Jerusalem was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel and the three Heb...

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