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Daniel 3:7

in Daniel 3

Therefore, as soon as all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, the people of every nation and language would fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

KJV

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

This verse in Daniel 3

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
All the people, the nations, and the languages fell down ... - All excepting the Jews. An express exception is made in regard to them in the following verses, and it does not appear that any of them were present on this occasion. It would seem that only the “officers” had been summoned to be present, and it is not improbable that all the rest of the Jewish nation absented themselves.

This site's exposition

a golden statue sixty cubits high

on Daniel 3:1-7

The “golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide” stands on “the plain of Dura,” gold from head to foot. Worship is ordered at the music on pain of “the blazing fiery furnace”. The people fell down, and the chapter turns on those who did not.

This site's exposition

would fall down and worship

Jerome and Albert Barnes take all the people as represented by their officials, for the whole empire could hardly gather on the plain of Dura. Hippolytus of Rome notes that many fell down and worshiped only from fear of the king. All became idolaters, in his judgment.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers2 voices

A commentator

Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER THREE · Written before 420.

proposed

Verse 7. "After these things the people, therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the trumpet and pipe..." We are to take this statement in the same sense as above, so that we understand that all the peoples were represented by their leaders. For of course it was impossible for all the nations to attend at one time.

A commentator

Hippolytus of Rome

Commentary on Daniel 2.15.5 · Written before 235.

proposed

And so then, while all the men were coming together for the event and while the musical instruments rang out together, at that moment the peoples, tribes, and tongues, fell down and worshipped the image, some of them only because they feared the king, but all became idolaters, and they heeded the word which was prescribed by the king.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Therefore at that time,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And no marvel when it was proclaimed, That whosoever would not worship this golden image should be immediately thrown into the midst of a burning fiery furnace, ready prepared for that purpose,

The words behind it

31 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כָּל־as to

    kol-

  • קֳבֵ֣לbecause

    kovelH6903 →29 times

  • דְּנָ֡הthis

    denahH1836 →58 times

  • בֵּהּ־at it

    beh-

  • זִמְנָ֡אtime the

    zimna'H2166 →11 times

  • כְּדִ֣יas that

    kediH1768 →345 times

  • שָֽׁמְעִ֣ין[were] hearing

    shameinH8086 →9 times

  • כָּֽל־all

    kal-H3606 →82 times

  • עַמְמַיָּ֡אpeoples the

    ʾamaiya'H5972 →15 times

  • קָ֣ל[the] sound of

    kalH7032 →7 times

  • קַרְנָא֩horn the

    karna'H7162 →14 times

  • מַשְׁר֨וֹקִיתָ֜אflute the

    mashrokita'H4953 →4 times

  • קַתְר֤וֹסzither

    kitarosH7030 →4 times

  • שַׂבְּכָא֙trigon

    sabekha'H5443 →4 times

  • פְּסַנְטֵרִ֔יןharp

    pesanterinH6460 →4 times

  • וְכֹ֖לand all

    vekholH3606 →82 times

  • זְנֵ֣י<the> kinds of

    zeneiH2178 →4 times

  • זְמָרָ֑א<the> music

    zemara'H2170 →4 times

  • נָֽפְלִ֨ין[were] falling down

    nafelinH5308 →11 times

  • כָּֽל־all

    kal-H3606 →82 times

  • עַֽמְמַיָּ֜אpeoples the

    ʾamaiya'H5972 →15 times

  • אֻמַיָּ֣אnations the

    ʾumaiya'H524 →8 times

  • וְלִשָּׁנַיָּ֗אand languages the

    velishanaiya'H3961 →7 times

  • סָֽגְדִין֙[they were] paying homage

    sagedinH5457 →12 times

  • לְצֶ֣לֶםto [the] image of

    letzelemH6755 →17 times

  • דַּהֲבָ֔א<the> gold

    dahava'H1722 →23 times

  • דִּ֥יwhich

    diH1768 →345 times

  • הֲקֵ֖יםhe had set up

    hakeimH6966 →35 times

  • נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֥רNebuchadnezzar

    nevukhadnetzarH5020 →31 times

  • מַלְכָּֽא׃king the

    malka'H4430 →180 times

  • וְסוּפֹּ֣נְיָ֔הand pipe

    vesiponeyahH5481 →4 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 John 5:19

    We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 4:4

      The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

    • Revelation 12:9

      And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ephesians 2:2

      in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the…

    • 1 John 4:4–6

      You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

    • Galatians 1:4

      who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

  • Through

    Revelation 19:20

    But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and…

    it leads to

    • Revelation 20:10

      And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Revelation 12:9

    And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

    it leads to

    • Luke 10:18

      So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

    • John 12:31

      Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

Where this verse is studied

About Daniel

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Furnace — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Furnace — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel; Hippolytus of Rome, Commentary on Daniel 2.15.5; Jerome, St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER THREE; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.