22<\/strong>. urgent<\/em> ] rather, sharp<\/strong> (Dan 2:15<\/span>).<\/p>\n Therefore, because the kings commandment was urgent – <\/B>Margin, as in Chaldee, word. The meaning is, that the king would admit of no delay; he urged on the execution of his will, even at the imminent peril of those who were entrusted with the execution of his command.<\/P> And the furnace exceeding hot – <\/B>Probably so as to send out the flame so far as to render the approach to it dangerous. The urgency of the king would not admit of any arrangements, even if there could have been any, by which the approach to it would be safe.<\/P> The flame of the fire slew those men – <\/B>Margin, as in Chaldee, spark. The meaning is, what the fire threw out – the blaze, the heat. Nothing can be more probable than this. It was necessary to approach to the very mouth of the furnace in order to cast them in, and it is very conceivable that a heated furnace would belch forth such flames, or throw out such an amount of heat, that this could not be done but at the peril of life. The Chaldee word rendered slew here, means killed. It does not mean merely that they were overcome with the heat, but that they actually died. To expose these men thus to death was an act of great cruelty, but we are to remember how absolute is the character of an Oriental despot, and how much enraged this king was, and how regardless such a man would be of any effects on others in the execution of his own will.<\/P> <\/p>\n The kings commandment was urgent; <\/B>which made them the more hasty and precipitate in their execution, and took less care for themselves against the violence of the flame. <\/P> The fire slew those men; <\/B>a signal hand of God upon such as execute wicked commands, who, though mighty men, had no might to escape the flame at the mouth of the furnace, when the other escaped in the midst of it. <\/P> <\/p>\n 22. flame . . . slew those men<\/B>(Dan 6:24<\/span>; Psa 7:16<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n And therefore, because the king’s commandment was urgent<\/strong>,…. Or was ordered to be obeyed in haste, and with expedition and dispatch, hence the men were cast into the furnace with clothes on; or those that cast them were not so careful of themselves:<\/p>\n and the furnace exceeding hot<\/strong>; being heated seven times more than usual:<\/p>\n the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego<\/strong>; which came out of the furnace, being so excessive hot, and the smoke along with it; so that when those men took up the three children, and brought them so near to it as was necessary to cast them in, the flame and smoke catched their breath, and suffocated them; who might be men that advised the king to such cruel measures, or however were very ready, out of ill will to these good men, to execute them, and therefore righteously perished in their sins: in the Apocrypha it is said, that the flame issued out forty nine cubits above the furnace.<\/p>\n “So that the flame streamed forth above the furnace forty and nine cubits.” Song of the Three Holy Children 1:24<\/p>\n ( because that<\/em>), a further explanatory expression added to ( wholly for this cause<\/em>): because the word of the king was sharp, and in consequence of it ( ), the furnace was heated beyond measure for that reason. The words ( these mighty men<\/em>) stand here in the status absol.<\/em>, and are again taken up in the pronoun after the verb . If the three were brought up to the furnace, it must have had a mouth above, through which the victims could be cast into it. When heated to an ordinary degree, this could be done without danger to the men who performed this service; but in the present case the heat of the fire was so great, that the servants themselves perished by it. This circumstance also is mentioned to show the greatness of the miracle by which the three were preserved unhurt in the midst of the furnace. The same thing is intended by the repetition of the word , bound<\/em>, Dan 3:23<\/span>, which, moreover, is purposely placed at the close of the passage to prepare for the contrast , at liberty<\/em>, free from the bonds, Dan 3:25<\/span>.<\/p>\n (Note: Between Dan 3:23<\/span> and Dan 3:24<\/span> the lxx have introduced the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the three men in the fiery furnace; and these two hymns are connected together by a narrative which explains the death of the Chaldeans who threw the three into the furnace, and the miracle of the deliverance of Daniel’s friends. Regarding the apocryphal origin of these additions, composed in the Greek language, which Luther in his translation has rightly placed in the Apocrypha, see my Lehr. der Einl. in d. A. Test<\/em>. 251.)<\/p>\n (22) Urgent.<\/strong>The same word is translated hasty<\/em> (Dan. 2:15<\/span>). The kings command had been uttered while he was in a furious rage, and in consequence of this, the furnace was raised to so high a temperature that the executioners were slain. The death of the executioners forms an evident contrast with the deliverance of those who had been sentenced to die.<\/p>\n 22, 23<\/strong>. <\/strong> Probably because of their haste or nervousness because the king was looking, the soldiers who carried the three Hebrews up to the top of the furnace are represented as being themselves slain by the flames, which leaped from its open mouth as they leaned over it to throw their prisoners in. Some of the old Jewish commentators are responsible for the improbable statement that ordinarily such criminals were thrown into the furnace by machinery. At this point the LXX. contains a long passage, including the Song of the Three Holy Children.<\/p>\n Dan 3:22<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Therefore because<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> And forasmuch as.<\/em> <\/p>\n Dan 3:22 Therefore 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.<\/p>\n Ver. 22. The flame of the fire slew those men.<\/strong> ] Who were too forward in the execution, and perhaps had been chief persuaders of the king to this whole action. God useth his creatures, as he did also at the Red Sea, for the safety of his saints and destruction of his enemies.<\/p>\n commandments word. <\/p>\n those men = those very men. <\/p>\n Dan 3:22-23<\/p>\n Dan 3:22 ThereforeH3606 H6903 H1836 becauseH4481 H1768 the king’sH4430 commandmentH4406 was urgent,H2685 and the furnaceH861 exceedingH3493 hot,H228 the flameH7631 ofH1768 the fireH5135 slewH6992 thoseH479 menH1400 thatH1768 took upH5267 Shadrach,H7715 Meshach,H4336 and Abednego.H5665 <\/p>\n Dan 3:23 And theseH479 threeH8532 men,H1400 Shadrach,H7715 Meshach,H4336 and Abednego,H5665 fell downH5308 boundH3729 into the midstH1459 of the burningH3345 fieryH5135 furnace.H861 <\/p>\n Dan 3:22-23<\/p>\n Therefore 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 Abed-nego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.<\/p>\n Nebuchadnezzar wanted these men executed quickly. His decree stated that anyone refusing to bow down and worship the image would be thrown into the furnace within “the same hour”, so it was a matter of urgency on the part of the king. The furnace was evidently blazing exceptionally hot because the soldiers who carried Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, bound in their clothing and throwing them into the flames were killed from the heat. This likely happened because Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were thrown into the furnace from an elevation position and when the doors of the furnace were opened the sudden burst of flame from the superheated furnace erupted unexpectedly upon the men who were carrying Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to their executions. When they were killed by the heat and fell, the bound bodies of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego fell into the furnace anyway. <\/p>\n commandment: Chal, word <\/p>\n urgent: Exo 12:33 <\/p>\n flame: or, spark <\/p>\n slew: Dan 6:24, Pro 11:8, Pro 21:18, Zec 12:2, Zec 12:3, Mat 27:5, Act 12:19 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 39:20 – into the prison 1Ki 13:28 – the lion had 2Ki 1:10 – consumed Mat 13:42 – cast<\/p>\n Dan 3:22, Exceeding hot is a good definition of “seven times in verse 19, It was not only the intensity of the heat that slew the executioners, but the extent of the fire, flame is from a wrord which Strong defines, flame (as split into tongues), I do not know by what means the furnace was heated, but whatever was the fuel generally used, It was increased because of the kings urgent order. The result was that the flame shot out from the furnace or its heat reached to a radius that included the soldiers and slew them.<\/p>\n Dan 3:22-23. Because the kings commandment was urgent That they should despatch them quickly, and be sure to do it effectually; and they therefore resolved to go to the very mouth of the furnace, that they might throw them into the midst of it; and were hasty and precipitate in executing their orders, and did not take proper care for themselves against the violence of the heat. The flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, &c. The apocryphal additions to the book of Daniel say, that the flame ascended forty-nine cubits above the month of the furnace. Probably God ordered it so, that the wind blew the flame directly upon them. Thus did God immediately plead the cause of his injured servants, and take vengeance for them on their persecutors, whom he punished not only in the very act of their sin, but by their sin. But these men were only the instruments of this cruelty: he that commanded them to do this had the greater sin; yet they suffered justly for executing an unjust decree: a decree which, it is very likely, they executed with pleasure. As to Nebuchadnezzar himself, he was referred for a future reckoning. There is a day coming when proud tyrants will be punished, not only for the cruelties they have been guilty of, but for employing those about them in their cruelties, and so exposing them to the judgments of God. It is probable, the noise occasioned by what befell these men drew Nebuchadnezzar to the place where the furnace was, where he beheld what is related in the following verses. These three men fell down bound, &c. All this is expressed with emphasis, to make the power of God more glorious in their preservation; for that flame which slew the executioners, might much more easily have killed them, even before they fell down.<\/p>\n Therefore 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 Abed-nego. 22. urgent ] rather, sharp (Dan 2:15). 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