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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

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.

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See also Daniel 3:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 23. _AND THESE THREE MEN - FELL DOWN BOUND_] There is a most evident want of connexion between this and the following verse; and it is between these verses that the apocryphal Song of the Three...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THESE THREE MEN - FELL DOWN BOUND ... - That is, the flame did not loosen the cords by which they had been fastened. The fact that they were seen to fall into the furnace “bound,” made the miracle...

  • 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

    THESE THREE MEN... FELL BOUND INTO THE MIDST, OF THE BURNING, FIERY FURNACE. They were thrown in, bound, and fell down bound into the midst of the furnace....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The three youths delivered from the flames....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THESE THREE MEN—FELL DOWN, &C.— Houbigant inserts between the 23rd and 24th verses two verses which are found in the Vulgate to this purpose: "But an angel of the Lord descended to Azariah and his...

  • 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

    And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. THESE THREE MEN ... FELL DOWN - not cast down; because those who brought the three...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ גֻבְרַיָּ֤א אִלֵּךְ֙ תְּלָ֣תֵּהֹ֔ון שַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A FURNACE AND MEN IN IT_ ‘These three men … I see four men.’ Daniel 3:23; Daniel 3:25 (_A sermon to children_) This very interesting subject is very easily divided. I. THE THREE IN THE FURNACE.—...

  • 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 THESE THREE MEN FELL DOWN BOUND INTO THE MIDST OF THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE. The fire not so much as destroying what they were bound with, and much less them; but being bound they fell, and there...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 t...

  • 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

    And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound, as they had been trussed up by the executioners, into the midst of the burning fiery furnace....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Miraculous Preservation of God's Servants...

  • 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 3:23 these H479 three H8532 men H1400 Shadrach H7715 Meshach H4336 Abed-Nego H5665 down H5308 (H8754) bound...

  • 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 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 Peter 4:12; 1 Peter 4:13; 2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 4:17;...

  • 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Fell down — All this is exprest with emphasis, to make the power of God more glorious in their preservation; for that shame that slew the executioners, might much more easily have killed them, even be...

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