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Daniel 3:1-30
The Pulpit Commentary on Daniel 3:1-30
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commentaryMatthew Henry on Daniel 3:1-7In 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 bigotry cause men to require t…Matthew HenrycommentaryNebuchadnezzar's Golden Image. (b. c. 587.)NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S GOLDEN IMAGE. (B. C. 587.) We have no certainty concerning the date of this story, only that if this image, which Nebuchadnezzar dedicated, had any relation to that which he dreamed of, it is probable t…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Daniel 3:1-30THE GOLDEN IMAGE, AND THE FIERY FURNACE.Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Daniel 3:1Man has a religious nature. It is a valid argument for the existence of God, that every race of men demands some object of worship. Everywhere there is a felt dependence—a conscious need of protection and support. As so…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Daniel 3:1-13The ceaseless creation of gods. "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image." "He set it up in the plain of Dura" (Daniel 3:1). Questions respecting the image will be discussed in the Expository section. For homiletical purp…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Daniel 3:1Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was three score cubits, and the breadth thereof air cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. The Septuagint Version is full of re…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Daniel 3:2-7Attempted coercion in religion a failure. If, with his slender knowledge of God, Nebuchadnezzar supposed that the erection of this colossal statue would be pleasing to God, as a visible expression of the monarch's alleg…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Daniel 3:6And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. The only difference between the Septuagint and the Massoretic text is that instead of rendering, "shall b…Joseph S. Exell and contributors