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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Daniel 3:27

Saw these men, with great admiration, for the satisfaction of all by their sight of them, and by their smell. All the works of God are perfect, and there was nothing here wanting to make this wonderful deliverance complete. Here was a pure act of God's omnipotence, to divide between the fire and its most intense heat, and to master any creature in the world in its height, by working against and above nature, whose utmost sphere of activity is limited by God.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 27. _UPON WHOSE BODIES THE FIRE HAD NO POUTER_] The heathens boasted that their priests could walk on burning coals unhurt; and _Virgil_ mentions this of the priests of Apollo of Soracte: - Sum...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE PRINCES, GOVERNORS, AND CAPTAINS - Notes, Daniel 3:3. AND THE KING’S COUNSELORS - Notes, Daniel 3:24. BEING GATHERED TOGETHER, SAW THESE MEN - There could be no mistake about the reality of t...

  • 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

    UPON WHOSE BODIES THE FIRE HAD NO POWER. They had been completely protected against the fire. God had been. wall around them. Not only were they unhurt but there was not even the smell of fire on the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SAW. kept gazing upon. CHANGED: or, discolored....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The three youths delivered from the flames....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE FIRE HAD NO POWER— The several expressions here used are meant to shew, that not the least injury was received from the fire. The expressions rise in fine order, and the climax is beautiful. The f...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    e. PHILANTHROPIC DECREE TEXT: Daniel 3:26-30 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Mos...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither we...

  • 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

    וּ֠ מִֽתְכַּנְּשִׁין אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּ֞א סִגְנַיָּ֣א וּ פַחֲוָתָא֮...

  • 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

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    True; not fickle, and liable to change. (Calmet) --- Opera mutas non mutas consilium. (St. Augustine, Confessions i. 4.) --- Cappel. argues from this confession, that the piece is not divine, as they...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! pray observe what is here said. Nebuchadnezzar is astonished, and so are his courtiers. But is this all? Yes! for had there been more than astonishment and any grace wrought in the heart, the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Daniel relates how the satraps were gathered together with the leaders, prefects, and councilors of the king. The gathering was simply a collection of numbers, and if they deliberated about anything o...

  • 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 THE PRINCES, GOVERNORS, AND CAPTAINS, AND THE KING'S COUNSELLORS, BEING GATHERED TOGETHER,.... Either by the order of the king, or of their own accord, to see the miracle that was wrought: SAW TH...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither wer...

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

    _Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the furnace_ As near as he durst come; _and spake_ With a milder tone than before, God having abated the fire of his fury; _and said, Ye servants of the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Miraculous Preservation of God's Servants...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the princes, governors, and captains, the representative rulers of his entire empire, AND THE KING'S COUNSELORS, the members of his own privy council, BEING GATHERED TOGETHER, SAW THESE MEN, UPON...

  • 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 3:27 satraps H324 administrators H5460 governors H6347 kings H4430 counselors H1907 together H3673 (H8723) saw H2370

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Then Nebuchanezzar came near to the opening of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here.” Then Shadrac...

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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