Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Daniel 3:6

Shall be cast... — This punishment was not uncommon among the Babylonians. One instance of it is mentioned by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:22; see also Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archœology, vol. ii., p. 361). The occasion being a national festival, any refusal to worship the national gods would be regarded as high treason. Any foreign subjects would be expected to take part in the ceremony, their gods being supposed to have been conquered, and being regarded as demons. (Comp. 2 Kings 19:12; 2 Chronicles 28:23.)

Continues after advertising

See also Daniel 3:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Daniel 3:6. _SHALL THE SAME HOUR_] This is the first place in the Old Testament where we find the division of time into _hours_. The Greeks say that _Anaximander_ was the inventor. He had it pro...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND WHOSO FALLETH NOT DOWN AND WORSHIPPETH - The order in this verse seems to be tyrannical, and it is contrary to all our notions of freedom of religious opinion and worship. But it was much in the s...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation regarding the image....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the same hour_ Cf. Daniel 3:15; Daniel 4:33; Daniel 5:5 (also -hour" alone, Daniel 4:16). The expression is common in Syriac, as in the Pesh. of...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE SAME HOUR— This is the first place in the Old Testament, where we meet with the division of time into _hours._ The Greeks ascribe the invention of them to Anaximander, who perhaps received it from...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. WHOSO FALLETH NOT DOWN AND WORSHIPPETH SHALL THE SAME HOUR BE CAST INTO ... A BURNI...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BURNING FIERY FURNACE] a form of death penalty mentioned in Jeremiah 29:22 as inflicted by Nebuchadnezzar....

  • 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

    וּ מַן ־דִּי ־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְ יִסְגֻּ֑ד

  • 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

    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,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Respecting the required adoration, nothing but outward observance was needed. King Nebuchadnezzar did not exact a verbal profession of belief in this deity, that is, in the divinity of the statue whic...

  • 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 WHOSO FALLETH NOT DOWN AND WORSHIPPETH,.... Who refuses to worship it, or wilfully neglects it; which would be interpreted a contempt of it, and of the king's command: SHALL IN THE SAME HOUR BE C...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace._ Ver. 6. _And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, &c._] Fire and sword are idola...

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

    _Then a herald cried aloud_ Made proclamation in the languages of the several nations assembled; _To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages_ Whatever parts of the empire you come from,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE THREE MEN LOYAL TO JEHOVAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and whoso falleth not down and worshipeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. This mode of punishment was in use among the Babylonians, and since all men were requir...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This was a punishment usual among the Chaldeans, to scorch, roast, and burn offenders with fire, JEREMIAH 29:22: see /APC 1MA 7:3. And this the king of Moab imitated, 2 Kings 3:27 Amos 2:1

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 3:6 whoever H4479 not H3809 down H5308 (H8748) worship H5457 (H8748) cast H7412 (H8729) immediately...

  • 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 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. 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...

  • 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 2:12; Daniel 2:13; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 3:11; Daniel 3:15;...

  • 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...

Continues after advertising