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Daniel 3:22 KJV
Daniel · chapter 3 · verse 22
Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.Daniel 3:22 · King James Version
Daniel 3:22 in context
20And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
21Then 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.
22Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
23And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
24Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- commandmentmillâha word, command, discourse, or subjectH4406 →
- exceedingyattîyrpreeminentH3493 →
- ShadrachShadrak{Shadrak, the Babylonian name of one of Daniel's companions}H7715 →
- furnaceʼattûwnprobably a fire-placeH861 →
- king'smeleka kingH4430 →
- urgentchătsaphproperly, to shear or cut closeH2685 →
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In these verses we have, I. The casting of these three faithful servants of God into the fiery furnace. Nebuchadnezzar had himself known and owned so much of the true God that, one would have thought, though his pride and vanity induced him to make this golden image, and set it up to be worshipped, yet what these…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-27