And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
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Gill's Exposition
And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth,.... Who refuses to worship it, or wilfully neglects it; which would be interpreted a contempt of it, and of the king's command:
shall in the same hour be…
Barnes' Notes
And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth - The order in this verse seems to be tyrannical, and it is contrary to all our notions of freedom of religious opinion and worship. But it was much in the…
Adam Clarke
Shall the same hour - This is the first place in the Old Testament where we find the division of time into hours. The Greeks say that Anaximander was the inventor. He had it probably from the…
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…
Cambridge Bible
the same hour Cf. Dan 3:3; Dan 4:33; Dan 5:5 (also -hour" alone, Dan 4:16). The expression is common in Syriac, as in the Pesh. of Mat 8:3; Mat 27:48; Mar 1:42; Act 11:11; Act 11:16; comp. (in the…
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