Daniel 3:1
OF GOLD] not necessarily solid, but perhaps overlaid. THREESCORE CUBITS.. SIX CUBITS] 90 feet by 9, or rather more. Dura is represented by the mounds of Dura, some 12 m. SSE. of Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF GOLD] not necessarily solid, but perhaps overlaid. THREESCORE CUBITS.. SIX CUBITS] 90 feet by 9, or rather more. Dura is represented by the mounds of Dura, some 12 m. SSE. of Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 image at a given musical signal, on pain of being cast into a furnace (Daniel 3:1). They all do so, wit... [ Continue Reading ]
PRINCES.. GOVENORS.. CAPTAINS] RV 'satraps.. deputies.. governors': so in Daniel 3:3; Daniel 3:27. 'Satraps' is a distinctly Persian term. JUDGES] RM 'chief soothsayers.' Sheriffs] RM 'lawyers.'... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.'... [ Continue Reading ]
SACKBUT] properly _trigon_, a stringed instrument with a triangular frame: so in Daniel 3:7; Daniel 3:10; Daniel 3:15. PSALTERY] psanterin = Gk. _psalterion_—a stringed instrument. DULCIMER] RM 'bagpipe': so in Daniel 3:7; Daniel 3:10; Daniel 3:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
BURNING FIERY FURNACE] a form of death penalty mentioned in Jeremiah 29:22 as inflicted by Nebuchadnezzar.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHALDEANS] a special offcial class, moved by jealousy. 12. See Daniel 2:49, 14. _Is it_ TRUE.. DO NOT YE SERVE] RV 'Is it of purpose.. that ye serve not.' Nebuchadnezzar is willing to put a favourable construction on their first refusal, and to give them another opportunity of obeying.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ARE_ NOT CAREFUL] RV 'have no need.' 17. If it be so, etc.] read, 'If our God.. is able.. he will deliver us.' The words do not really question God's power, but mean rather, 'If our God sees fit,' etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF NOT] The refusal is absolute, come what will.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MOST MIGHTY MEN] RV 'certain mighty men.'... [ Continue Reading ]
COATS.. HOSEN.. HATS] RV 'hosen.. tunics' (RM 'turbans').. 'mantles.' 23. In LXX the 'Song of the Three Holy Children' is inserted after this v.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF GOD] RV 'a son of the gods,' a heavenly being, called an angel in v.,28. Nebuchadnezzar could not have used the expression in the definite Christian sense suggested by AV. 29. Made a dunghill] see on Daniel 2:5.... [ Continue Reading ]