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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Daniel 3:22

The king's commandment was urgent; which made them the more hasty and precipitate in their execution, and took less care for themselves against the violence of the flame. The fire slew those men; a signal hand of God upon such as execute wicked commands, who, though mighty men, had no might to escape the flame at the mouth of the furnace, when the other escaped in the midst of it.

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See also Daniel 3:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE, BECAUSE THE KING’S COMMANDMENT WAS URGENT - Margin, as in Chaldee, “word.” The meaning is, that the king would admit of no delay; he urged on the execution of his will, even at the imminent...

  • 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

    THE FLAME OF THE FIRE SLEW THOSE MEN THAT TOOK UP SHADRACH, ETC. If the furnace was so intensely heated as the king commanded, with such inflammable materials as would be likely to be used, the flames...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    COMMANDMENTS WORD. THOSE MEN. those very men....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The three youths delivered from the flames....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _urgent_ rather, SHARP (Daniel 2:15)....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE BECAUSE— _And forasmuch as._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    d. PERFECT DELIVERANCE TEXT: Daniel 3:19-25 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and command...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. THE FLAME OF THE FIRE SLEW THO...

  • 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

    URGENT. — The same word is translated _hasty_ (Daniel 2:15). The king’s command had been uttered while he was in a furious rage, and in consequence of this, the furnace was raised to so high a tempera...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כָּ ל ־קֳבֵ֣ל דְּנָ֗ה מִן ־דִּ֞י מִלַּ֤ת

  • 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 REWARDED Daniel 3:19-30 It is only when we reach the fire that we become aware of the presence of the divine Companion, walking beside us as if treading the dew-besprinkled glades of Paradise...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Slew. They were working still at the furnace, when it burst out and destroyed them, (Calmet) while the three Jews were praising God below. (Haydock) (ver. 46, 48.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Ah! wretched Nebuchadnezzar! how wilt thou endure the heated furnace of everlasting wrath! What! even if it had killed the faithful servants of the Lord, what would have been their sufferings for a fe...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Ver. 22. _The flame of the fire...

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

    _Because the king's commandment was urgent_ That they should despatch them quickly, and be sure to do it effectually; and they therefore resolved to go to the very mouth of the furnace, that they migh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore, because the king's commandment was urgent, because he. spoke in fury, AND THE FURNACE EXCEEDING HOT, far in excess of its usual degree of heat, THE FLAME OF THE FIRE, a blast sweeping out f...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Miraculous Preservation of God's Servants...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    COMMANDMENT: Cald. word FLAME: Or, spark...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-27 Let Nebuchadnezzar heat his furnace as hot as he can, a few minutes will finish the torment of those cast into it; but hell-fire tortures, and yet does not kill. Those who worshipped the beast...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 3:22 Therefore H3606 H6903 because H4481 H1836 kings H4430 command H4406 urgent H2685 (H8683) furnace...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • 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

    _That they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated._ THE FIERY FURNACE I. THE PERSON WHO CAUSED IT TO BE MADE. This Oriental despot was then in the zenith of his g...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 3:22 Nebuchadnezzar’s order resulted in the death of his own soldiers. The Lord is able to protect his servants better than Nebuchadnezzar can protect his. ⇐...

  • 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

    Acts 12:19; Daniel 6:24; Exodus 12:33; Matthew 27:5; Proverbs 11:8;...

  • 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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