Daniel 3:29

For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee: and we have trespassed in all things:

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

In Context

28For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.

30And we have not hearkened to thy commandments, nor have we observed nor done as thou hadst commanded us, that it might go well with us.

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Cross References

Ezra 6:11And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.

Psalms 76:10Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?

Daniel 3:15Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

Daniel 3:28For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.

Daniel 6:28Now Daniel continued unto the reign of Darius, and the reign of Cyrus, the Persian.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 3:29-30

Nebuchadnezzar Gives Glory to God; Nebuchadnezzar Honours God. ( b. c. 587.) 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. 29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and… Read the whole commentary →

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