Something of great magnitude has caught the eye of Nebuchadnezzar. King; They answered and said unto the king, True, O king." Commentary for Daniel 3 . 4 A herald then loudly proclaimed: 'Peoples, nations, languages! (1) The image is made and set up. Daniel L. Akin is the president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. "[33] It is admitted that Nebuchadnezzar probably did not know the full meaning of the words he used there; but so what? Something of great magnitude has caught the eye of Nebuchadnezzar. David Platt serves as Lead Pastor of … We can imagine that the king had them cast into the furnace and didn’t intend to look twice, believing they would be immediately consumed. haddabrin. Daniel 4:10-12 Daniel 4:13-16 PRAYER. Daniel 3:24-25 New International Version (NIV) 24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.” 25 He said, “Look! 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of b the vessels of the house of God. The reasons of the wonder here were that the men who were bound when cast into the furnace were seen alive, and walking unbound; that to them a fourth person was added, walking with them; and that the fourth had the appearance of a Divine personage. And if any one should say it was enthusiasm, this would be forced and frigid. Of course, the critics spill lots of ink trying to make their perversion stand up. Daniel 4:1-3 Lecture Seventeenth. Caiaphas did not know the meaning of his prophecy of the death of Christ (John 11:59); but God put true words into the mouth of that unbeliever, just like he did here in the case of Nebuchadnezzar. 2. This passage should be rendered, "The fourth is like the Son of God," exactly as it is in the KJV. This is an egregious error. The Prayer of Azariah and the accompanying Song of the Three Young Men form part of chapter three and embellish the story of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, three young Jewish men who were bound and thrown into a fiery furnace for defying Nebuchadrezzar’s order to worship an idol. The king. Proud member 24.Counselors — Probably councilors. Daniel 3:24-27: Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, "Weren't there three men that we tied up and … Bible quotations taken from the NRSV. If [~'Elohiym] here means "gods" in the sense of pagan gods, then the pagan gods may be said to have created the world! Daniel chapter three does not contain a shred of prophecy. Is like the Son of God - A most improper translation. 33; "trepidus", Junius & Tremellius. He holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Arlington and is the author or editor of numerous books and Bible commentaries including Theology for the Church and the New American Commentary on 1, 2, and 3 John. Children of God, becoming entangled anew in bonds of various kinds, are often placed by the unerring hand of a faithful and loving Father in the furnace of affliction; and in due season, the bonds being burned, they are led out of the furnace to feel anew and often far more than previously, “the glorious liberty of the children of God.”. 1 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits, its width six cubits; he set it up in the … Daniel - Chapter 3 « Previous Chapter 2. HE WAS ASTONISHED AT THE NUMBER HE BEHELD IN THE FURNACE “Lo! The Golden Image. But this is certain: that it is and has been of old, received by the Church, and read as canonical Scripture in her liturgy and divine offices. ... Daniel 3:24–29. And when we do not regard his power as highly as we ought, he interposes his angels to remove our doubts, as we have formerly said. But as it was in all the Greek Bibles, (which were originally translated from the Hebrew) it is more than probable that it had been formerly in the Hebrew; or rather in the Chaldaic, in which the Book of Daniel was written. Deliverance through the Seven-Fold Tribulation (3:24-27) Epilogue: The Acknowledgment by the King of the Most High God (3:28-30) Introduction. they answered and said, true, O do but see here how this proud Nebuchadnezzar was astonished at the beholding of this sight!" According to this usual custom, Nebuchadnezzar says, the fourth man is like a son of a god. King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue whose height was sixty cubits and whose width was six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. 80. Like Daniel, they were young men taken from Judah into captivity and trained to serve before the king - Dan 1:6-7 b. 3. It is accepted as canonical scripture by Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians, but rejected by Protestants. Between Daniel 3:23 and Daniel 3:24 LXX, and Theodotion, and following them the Vulgate (but with notes prefixed and added to the effect that Jerome did not find the passage in the Heb. Leon Wood, A Commentary of Daniel (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1973), p. 80. 23 And these three men, … It must have been devastating for the prophet Jeremiah to witness the fall of Jerusalem, the enslavement of his people and the destruction of the holy Temple of God. Scripture: Daniel 3:24-25. This mighty, supernatural deliverance of the three "was designed to show the sovereignty of the true God over the nation that had taken Israel captive. At the burning of those that cast the three men into the furnace, Here is an instance of the vast superiority of the old King James Version above everything since then. Can we fail in the light of Scripture to recognise the fourth in the furnace as “the Messenger of the covenant” of whom we read: “In all their afflictions He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them”; “the Word” that was to be “made flesh and dwell among men, the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth”? 21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Salem Media Group. What is now the state of his mind? the truth of this; it was not only the king that gave the orders, furnace, to see what was become of those that were cast into it: Here Daniel relates how God’s power was manifest to the profane — to both the king and his courtiers, who had conspired for the death of these holy men. A single angel was sent to these three men; Nebuchadnezzar calls him a son of God; not because he thought him to be Christ, but according to the common opinion among all people, that angels are sons of God, since a certain divinity is resplendent in them; and hence they call angels generally sons of God. John Trapp Complete Commentary. astounded: Da 5:6 Ac 5:23, 24, 25 9:6 12:13; officials: Da 3:2,3; O king: Da 3:9,10,17 4:22,27 5:18 6:7,22 1Sa 17:55 Ac 26:13,27 We can imagine that the king had them cast into the furnace and didn’t intend to look twice, believing they would be immediately consumed. Then Nebuchadnezzar was astonished, At the burning of those that cast the three men into the furnace, as Jacchiades; or he might be seized with a panic, and his spirits filled with fear and dread, the word F21 is by some said to signify, and this from the immediate hand of God: and rose up in haste; Commentary on Daniel 3:1-7 (Read Daniel 3:1-7) 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. Is this chapter all that significant? He who “directeth His lightning to the ends of the earth,” Lord of all the elements, the God of nature and nature’s laws, caused the fire to act only in such direction and for such ends as He willed. The Septuagint (LXX) also rendered this place, "One like to the Son of God." Louis F. Hartman writes of Daniel 3:24-90 (LXX): "This part of the chapter, embracing the Prayer of Azariah (26-45) and the Hymn of the Three Men (52-90a), with the prose introduction (24-25), interlude (46-51), and conclusion (90b), is preserved only in the Gk version and the ancient translations made from it. Read Introduction to Daniel . No Other God — that assertion is at the core of this chapter as it is in the entire book of Daniel. The book claims to have been written by a man named Daniel, who was brought from Jerusalem in the year 605 BC (Dan. True, O king: the Lord extorted this confession from them, though enemies. spirits filled with fear and dread, the word F21 is by III. "The language here is simply: "Like to a son of God ([~'Elohiym]). 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