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Daniel 3:24,25

DANIEL—NOTE ON Daniel 3:24 Daniel’s friends were joined in the fire by a fourth individual, who had the appearance of a divine being like a son of the gods. This was either a physical appearance of Christ before his incarnation or an angel. Either way, this is a demonstration of God’s presence with believers in distress.

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See also Daniel 3:24,25 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN, NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING WAS ASTONIED - The word “astonied,” which occurs several times in our translation Ezra 9:3; Job 17:8; Job 18:20; Eze

  • 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

    THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING WAS ASTONISHED. He saw as he gazed into the furnace that which astonished him, so much that he rose in haste and asked. question to relieve his amazement. He saw four per...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    COUNSELLORS: or, ministers [standing near] to him; either to his throne or near at the time. Chaldee. _haddabrin._ Not the same word as in verses: Daniel 3:2; Daniel 3:3....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _was astonied_ -astonied" is the old, and more correct, form of _astonished_(Old Eng. _astony, astonie_, from Old Fr. _estonner_, Lat. * _extonare_). Here, however, the meaning is rather, WAS ALARMED,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The three youths delivered from the flames....

  • 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

    Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:24 counsellors, (c-18) Or 'viziers;' and so ver. 27; chs. 4.36; 6.7....

  • 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

    WAS ASTONIED. — He had been watching the proceedings from a distance through the “mouth” (Daniel 3:26), which was in the side of the furnace....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֱדַ֨יִן֙ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֔א תְּוַ֖הּ וְ קָ֣ם...

  • 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

    And, &c. "What follows I have not found in the Hebrew volumes." (St. Jerome) (Haydock) --- Here St. Jerome takes notice, that from this verse to ver. 91 was not in the Hebrew in his time. But as it wa...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Probably the impious wretch was struck with astonishment at the distinguishing providence of God, that while God's servants received no hurt, the very heat of the furnace struck dead those who had lai...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here Daniel relates how God’s power was manifest to the profane — to both the king and his courtiers, who had conspired for the death of these holy men. He says, then, _the king trembled _at that mira...

  • 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

    THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS ASTONISHED, At the burning of those that cast the three men into the furnace, as Jacchiades; or he might be seized with a panic, and his spirits filled with fear and dread, the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, [and] spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto th...

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

    _Then Nebuchadnezzar was astonied, and rose up in haste _ Some have thought there is something wanting between this and the preceding verse, expressive of the reason of Nebuchadnezzar's astonishment....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then Nebuchadnezzar, the king, was astonied, greatly astounded, AND ROSE UP IN HASTE, due to his great agitation, AND SPAKE AND SAID UNTO HIS COUNSELORS, the ministers, or governors, who formed his co...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Miraculous Preservation of God's Servants...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    COUNSELLORS: Or, governors...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ROSE UP IN HASTE: this fear, perturbation, and amazement as the word signifies, surprised the king, being surprised with the strangeness of it, beholding something supernatural in it, together with th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 3:24 Then H116 King H4430 Nebuchadnezzar H5020 astonished H8429 (H8754) rose H6966 (H8754) haste H927 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and he rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counsellors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the heart of the fire?” They answered and said to the...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Daniel 3:24 There are two aspects of life: one, the common, the ordinary, the prosaic aspect; and the other, the Divine, the glorified, the Christian aspect; and that which alone can give you this se...

  • 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

    _Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished._ THE ASTONISHMENT OF NEBUCHADNEZZER AS HE LOOKED INTO THE FIERY FURNACE Consider the causes of his astonishment. I. HE WAS ASTONISHED AT THE NUMBER HE B...

  • 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 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 17:55; Acts 12:13; Acts 26:13; Acts 26:27; Acts 5:23;...

  • 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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