Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel 3:2
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.'
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.'
Verse Daniel 3:2. _SENT TO GATHER TOGETHER THE PRINCES_] It is not easy to show what these different offices were, as it is difficult to ascertain the meaning of the _Chaldee_ words. _Parkhurst_ analy...
THEN, NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING SENT TO GATHER TOGETHER THE PRINCES - It is difficult now, if not impossible, to determine the exact meaning of the words used here with reference to the various officers...
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 ...
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...
THE KING SENT. This great Durbar would hardly have taken place till after the campaign referred to in note on "came" (Daniel 1:1). It was therefore probably held about 475 B. C, in Daniel's thirty-eig...
Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation regarding the image....
_princes_ SATRAPS, Aram. _"achashdarpan_, both this and the Gk. ἐξατράπης, σατράπης, being corruptions of the Old Persian _kshatra-pâwan_, lit. -protector of the realm," but denoting by usage (cf. on...
CHAPTER THREE I. DIVINE DELIVERANCEDaniel 3:1-30 a. PAGAN DEITY TEXT: Daniel 3:1-7 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six...
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to c...
3:2 governors, (c-15) Or 'pachas.' see Ezra 8:36 . counsellors, (d-21) Or 'lawyers.'...
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...
SENT — _i.e.,_ sent heralds, as appears from Daniel 3:4. (On the Babylonian officers, see _Exc._ A.)...
וּ נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֡א שְׁלַ֡ח לְ מִכְנַ֣שׁ...
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...
LOYALTY SEVERELY TESTED Daniel 3:1-18 The king, at the close of the foregoing chapter, acknowledged the supremacy of Daniel's God, yet here he erects an image to Bel and to himself, demanding divine...
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...
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to co...
Nobles. Literally, "satraps," or, "the king's domestics." (Septuagint in 1 Esdras viii. 36.) --- Judges, or "governors of provinces." (ib. Theodotion, &c.) --- Captains of the soothsayers. --- Rulers;...
We have here the prosecution of this impious design. Reader! would it be believed, if fact had not proved it so, that men possessing reason, should fall down to so ridiculous a figure, as a lifeless,...
I do not know the derivation of the word “_Satra _p;” but manifestly all these are names of magistracies, and I allow myself to translate the words freely, since they are not Hebrew, and the Jews are...
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...
THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING SENT TO GATHER TOGETHER THE PRINCES,.... He sent letters, or dispatched messengers, into the several provinces of his empire, and parts of his dominions, to convene all th...
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to co...
_Then Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather together the princes_, &c. It would be very difficult, and perhaps impossible, at this distance of time, to ascertain the proper titles and offices of the several c...
Then Nebuchadnezzar, the king, sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, executive officers of superior rank with both civil and military duties, THE JUDGES, or chief offic...
THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...
1-7 In the height of the image, about thirty yards, probably is included a pedestal, and most likely it was only covered with plates of gold, not a solid mass of that precious metal. Pride and bigotr...
This great statue, whether Nebuchadnezzar's own, or Bel, or any other of his gods, see DANIEL 3:14, must be solemnly dedicated, and therefore all the peers of the realm are called to it; but whether t...
Daniel 3:2 King H4430 Nebuchadnezzar H5020 sent H7972 (H8754) together H3673 (H8749) satraps H324 administrators H5460 gov
‘Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come...
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...
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...
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...
_Then Nebuchadnezzar, the king, sent to gather together the princes, the governors._ SOCIETY Society, the union of the many for the interest of all, seems ever to have been a principal object of God’...
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...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 3:2 SATRAPS. A governor of a satrapy (province). ⇐ ⇔...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XII.—THE GOLDEN IMAGE (Chap. Daniel 3:1) Sudden conversions not always lasting ones. Mere impulses often evanescent. Men’s goodness sometimes “as the early cloud or as the morning...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 3:1 THE GOLDEN IMAGE, AND THE FIERY FURNACE. DANIEL 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose heigh
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...
1 Kings 12:32; Exodus 32:4; Judges 16:23; Numbers 25:2; Proverbs 29:12
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...