Daniel 3:14 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 3:14

and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden statue I have set up?

BSB

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ASV

Nebuchadnezzar answered and said unto them, Is it of purpose, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

KJV

Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

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

Verse 14. "Do ye not serve my gods, and do you not worship the golden statue which I have set up?..." Other authorities assert that it is the custom of Holy Scripture to speak of the one and same idol in the plural, just like the verse in Exodus concerning the calf: "These are thy gods, O Israel, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt" (Exodus 32:4). Also in the Book of Kings, where Jeroboam is establishing the golden calf in Bethel, he is said to have fashioned idols (1 Kings 12:26-28).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, is it true,.... What I have heard of you, what you are charged with and accused of; surely it cannot be; so Aben Ezra and Saadiah interpret the word as we do, and all the Oriental versions: it is only used in this place: it is expressed by way of admiration, as Jacchiades observes; it being incredible to the king, what he could never believe, unless it appeared plain in his own eyes.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Is it true--rather, as the Margin [THEODOTION], "Is it purposely that?" &c. Compare the Hebrew, Nu 35:20, 22. Notwithstanding his "fury," his past favor for them disposes him to give them the opportunity of excusing themselves on the ground that their disobedience had not been intentional; so he gives them another trial to see whether they would still worship the image.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עָנֵ֤ה	'a.Neh	[was] replying	H6032 →
נְבֻֽכַדְנֶצַּר֙	ne.vu.khad.ne.Tzar	Nebuchadnezzar	H5020 →
וְאָמַ֣ר	ve.'a.Mar	and [was] saying	H560 →
לְה֔וֹן	le.Hon	to them
הַצְדָּ֕א	hatz.Da'	¿ purpose	H6656 →
שַׁדְרַ֥ךְ	shad.Rakh	O Shadrach	H7715 →
מֵישַׁ֖ךְ	mei.Shakh	Meshach	H4336 →
וַעֲבֵ֣ד	va.'a.Ved	and Abed-	H5665 →
נְג֑וֹ	ne.Go	-nego	H5665 →
לֵֽאלָהַ֗י	le.la.Hai	to gods my	H426 →
לָ֤א	la'	not	H3809 →
אִֽיתֵיכוֹן֙	'i.tei.khOn	are you	H383 →
פָּֽלְחִ֔ין	pa.le.Chin	[are] paying reverence	H6399 →
וּלְצֶ֧לֶם	u.le.Tze.lem	and to [the] image of	H6755 →
דַּהֲבָ֛א	da.ha.Va'	<the> gold	H1722 →
דִּ֥י	di	which	H1768 →
הֲקֵ֖ימֶת	ha.Kei.met	I have set up	H6966 →
לָ֥א	la'	not	H3809 →
סָֽגְדִֽין׃	Sa.ge.Din	[you are] paying homage	H5457 →

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
Jeremiah 50:2
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…
leads to
- Isaiah 21:9
  Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 46:1
  Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
Through
Isaiah 46:1
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:44
  I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Daniel 3:1
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
leads to
- Habakkuk 2:19
  Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
- Jeremiah 16:20
  Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
- Isaiah 46:6
  They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
- Hosea 8:4
  They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
- Acts 19:26
  And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made…