Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
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Gill's Exposition
And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together,.... Either by the order of the king, or of their own accord, to see the miracle that was wrought:
saw…
Barnes' Notes
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth ... - Margin, “door.” The Chaldee word means door, gate, entrance. The “form” of the furnace is unknown. There was a place, however, through which the fuel…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
mouth Aram. door.
God Most High] so Dan 4:2; Dan 5:18; Dan 5:21: without -God," Dan 4:17; Dan 4:24-25; Dan 4:32; Dan 4:34; Dan 7:25 (first time); and with the adj. in a more Hebraistic form, Dan 7:18;…
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