Daniel 3:28 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 3:28

Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

BSB

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ASV

Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

KJV

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

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Commentary

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Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER THREE (420)

Verse 28. " 'Blessed be God (the Vulgate has "their God, namely") of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Who hath sent His angel and rescued His servants who believed in Him...'" The person whom he had previously called a son of God he here calls an angel, even though he had in the preceding passage described him as similar to a son of God rather than to God Himself.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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 that it happened not long after that; some reckon it to be about the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar, a year before Jehoiachin's captivity, in which Ezekiel was carried away.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Though he is not himself persuaded to own their God for his and to worship him, because, if he do so, he knows he must worship him only and renounce all others, and he calls him the God of Shadrach, not my God, yet he commends them for cleaving to him, and not serving nor worshipping any other God but their own.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Blessed be the God of Shadrach, etc. - Here is a noble testimony from a heathen. And what produced it? The intrepidly pious conduct of these three noble Jews. Had they been time-servers, the name of the true God had not been known in Babylon. What honor does the Lord put on them that are steadfast in the faith!

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

42:12. changed the king's word--have made the king's attempt to coerce into obedience vain. Have set aside his word (so "alter . . . word," Ezr 6:11) from regard to God. Nebuchadnezzar now admits that God's law should be obeyed, rather than his (Ac 5:29). yielded . . . bodies--namely, to the fire. not serve--by sacrificing. nor worship--by prostration of the body.

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Original language & word study

32 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עָנֵ֨ה	'a.Neh	[was] replying	H6032 →
נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּ֜ר	ne.vu.khad.ne.Tzar	Nebuchadnezzar	H5020 →
וְאָמַ֗ר	ve.'a.Mar	and [he was] saying	H560 →
בְּרִ֤יךְ	be.Rikh	[be] blessed	H1289 →
אֱלָהֲהוֹן֙	'e.la.ha.hOn	God their	H426 →
דִּֽי־	di-	of	H1768 →
שַׁדְרַ֤ךְ	shad.Rakh	Shadrach	H7715 →
מֵישַׁךְ֙	mei.shaKh	Meshach	H4336 →
וַעֲבֵ֣ד	va.'a.Ved	and Abed-	H5665 →
נְג֔וֹ	ne.Go	-nego	H5665 →
דִּֽי־	di-	who	H1768 →
שְׁלַ֤ח	she.Lach	he has sent	H7972 →
מַלְאֲכֵהּ֙	mal.'a.Kheh	angel his	H4398 →
וְשֵׁיזִ֣ב	ve.shei.Ziv	and he has delivered	H7804 →
לְעַבְד֔וֹהִי	le.'av.Do.hi	<obj.> servants his	H5649 →
דִּ֥י	di	who	H1768 →
הִתְרְחִ֖צוּ	hit.re.Chi.tzu	they trusted	H7365 →
עֲל֑וֹהִי	a.Lo.hi	on him	H5922 →
וּמִלַּ֤ת	u.mi.Lat	and [the] word of	H4406 →
מַלְכָּא֙	mal.Ka'	king the	H4430 →
שַׁנִּ֔יו	sha.Niv	they violated	H8133 →
וִיהַ֣בוּ	vi.Ha.vu	and they gave	H3052 →
גֶשְׁמְה֗וֹן	gesh.mei.hon	body their	H1655 →
דִּ֠י	di	that	H1768 →
לָֽא־	la'-	not	H3809 →
יִפְלְח֤וּן	yif.le.Chun	they will pay reverence	H6399 →
וְלָֽא־	ve.la'-	and not	H3809 →
יִסְגְּדוּן֙	yis.ge.Dun	they will pay homage	H5457 →
לְכָל־	le.khol	to any	H3606 →
אֱלָ֔הּ	'e.Lah	god	H426 →
לָהֵ֖ן	la.Hen	except	H3861 →
לֵאלָֽהֲהֽוֹן׃	le.La.ha.Hon	to own God their	H426 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 12:11
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 10:3–5
  For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
- John 16:33
  I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
- 1 John 5:5
  Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:57
  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
- Romans 16:20
  The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Through
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 5:9
  You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
- Numbers 14:18
  ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon…
- Deuteronomy 4:24
  For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.