Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Ver. 3. Then the princes, the governors.] These envying the new favourites, and fearing that the king, by his late confession, Dan 2:47 had too good an opinion of the Jews' religion, came readily to this dedication, and probably had contrived it for a mischief to those three worthies, as those in Dan 6:4-5 did to Daniel.