“ They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. ”
O king, live for ever - A customary form of address to a monarch, implying that long life was regarded as an eminent blessing. See the notes at Daniel 2:4 .
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....
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. O king, live forever. A preface of flattery is closely akin to the cruelty that follows. So, Acts 24:2-3 , etc., Tertul...
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...
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 g...
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 d...
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...
It is very evident, that the whole design of this new dunghill God set up, was, with a view to criminate the faithful Jews. And as upon the late occasion, at the instance of Daniel; those three men w...
They spake and said to Nebuchadnezzar ,.... Having got access unto him, and within his hearing, they expressed themselves in the following manner: O king, live for ever ; this they said to show th...
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. Ver. 9. They spake and said, … O king, live for ever.] Thus they insinuate themselves by flattery. So Acts 24:2,3 .
At that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews It is not improbable that these Chaldeans were such as envied these friends of Daniel their preferments, having perhaps themselves exp...
The Hebrew Princes Accused; Fortitude of the Jewish Princes. B. C. 587. 8 Wherefore at...
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‘They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king live for ever. You, O king have made a decree, that every man who will hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulc...
HOMILETICS SECT. XIII.—THE FIERY FURNACE (Chap. Daniel 3:8-27 ) 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...
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,...
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 pedesta...
O king, live for ever. The Golden Image Set Up These last words, “O king, live for ever,” were designed by those who uttered them as the expression of the most gross and servile adulation, and...
EXPOSITION Daniel 3:1-27 THE GOLDEN IMAGE , AND THE FIERY FURNACE . Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was three score cubits, and the...
The Three Men Loyal to Jehovah
Daniel 2:4 ; Daniel 5:10 ; Daniel 6:21 ; Daniel 6:6 ; Daniel 3:4 ; Daniel 3:5 ; Romans 13:7
Nebuchadnezzar's Image of Gold Daniel 3:1-30 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Daniel in Babylon. (1) How Daniel came to be in Babylon. When Jerusalem was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel and the...