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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Daniel 3:14

Is it true? — Literally, Is it of design or of set purpose that you have done this?

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See also Daniel 3:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NEBUCHADNEZZAR SPAKE AND SAID UNTO THEM, IS IT TRUE - Margin, “of purpose;” that is, have you done this intentionally? Wintle renders this, “Is it insultingly?” Jacchiades says that the word is used 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TRUE. of set purpose....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The accusation brought against the three Jewish youths, and their answer to the king....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Is it _true_ Probably this is right (cf. Theod. εἰ ἀληθῶς; Pesh. _in truth_), though it requires a slight change in the text (האזדא [see Daniel 2:5; Daniel 2:8] for הצדא). R.V. (with Ges.) _of purpose...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. PROFESSION OF DEDICATION TEXT: Daniel 3:13-18 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king. 14 N...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? IS IT TRUE? - rather, as margin. ...

  • 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

    עָנֵ֤ה נְבֻֽכַדְנֶצַּר֙ וְ אָמַ֣ר לְהֹ֔ון הַ...

  • 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 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...

  • 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

    There needs no comment on these verses, only to observe, that the dreadful fury of the enemies of God and of his Christ, have been always the same, as in the instance of this man. Reader! have you nev...

  • 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

    NEBUCHADNEZZAR SPAKE AND SAID UNTO THEM, IS IT TRUE,.... What I have heard of you, what you are charged with and accused of; surely it cannot be; so Aben Ezra and Saadiah interpret the word as we do,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, [Is it] true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? Ver. 14. _Is it true, O Shadrach,...

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

    _Nebuchadnezzar said, Is it true, O Shadrach?_ &c. Or, _of purpose_, as the margin reads it, and as the word is used, Exodus 21:13. Is it designedly and deliberately done, or was it only through inadv...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, literally, "With deliberate, evil intent are ye not serving my god?" NOR WORSHIP THE G...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TRUE: Or, of purpose, as Exodus 21:13...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-18 True devotion calms the spirit, quiets and softens it, but superstition and devotion to false gods inflame men's passions. The matter is put into a little compass, Turn, or burn. Proud men are s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Now when these men were brought before the king, though in rage, yet he doth not presently throw them into the fire, but makes inquiry by interrogatories, that he might see first if they were guilty,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 3:14 Nebuchadnezzar H5020 spoke H6032 (H8750) saying H560 (H8750) true H6656 Shadrach H7715 Meshach H4336 Abed-N

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it right, O Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my god, nor worship the golden image that I have set up?” Now if you are ready so that...

  • 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

    _They serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up._ THE GOLDEN IMAGE In last chapter we read of an image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in vision. In this chapter our attention...

  • 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

    Daniel 3:1; Daniel 4:8; Exodus 21:13; Exodus 21:14; Isaiah 46:1;...

  • 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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