12For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
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Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We meet with a great difficulty in the date of this story; it is said to be in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 2:1. Now Daniel was carried to Babylon in his first year, and, it should seem, he was three years under tutors and governors before he was presented to the king, Dan. 1:5. How then could this happen in the second year ? Perhaps, though three years were appointed for t…
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