22Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-27)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, though his pride and vanity induced him to make this golden image, and set it up to be worshipped, yet what these young men now said (whom he had formerly found to be wiser than all his wise men) wou…
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