Daniel 3:9

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 .

Related Commentaries of Daniel 3:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
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 fr...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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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 empi...
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...
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...
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 inter...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 occa...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They spake and said to Nebuchadnezzar ,.... Having got access unto him, and within his hearing, they expressed themselves in the following manner:...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Danie...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Hebrew Princes Accused; Fortitude of the Jewish Princes. B. C. 587....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 e...
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 simpl...
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 hu...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 expres...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Daniel 3:1-27 THE GOLDEN IMAGE , AND THE FIERY FURNACE . Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Three Men Loyal to Jehovah
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They spake and said to the King Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever! this being the ordinary form of address in Babylonia.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 2:4 ; Daniel 5:10 ; Daniel 6:21 ; Daniel 6:6 ; Daniel 3:4 ; Daniel 3:5 ; Romans 13:7
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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 wa...

⁹ They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.

Related Commentaries of Daniel 3:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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