23And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. …
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
A Song of degrees of David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; …
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. …
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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