Daniel 3:4
Then an announcer shouted, “You people who come from many countries and many people-groups and who speak many languages, listen to what the king has commanded!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
In Context
3When they all arrived, they all stood in front of that statue.
Cross References
Esther 8:9Then the king summoned his secretaries, on June 25th, and Mordecai told them to write letters to the Jews and to all the governors and other officials in all of the 127 provinces, which extended from India in the east to Ethiopia in the west. They wrote these letters in all the languages that the people in each area spoke. They also wrote letters to the Jewish people, in their language.
Isaiah 40:9You people of Jerusalem, you have good news to tell to people, so, shout it from the top of a high mountain! Shout it loudly, and do not be afraid! Tell the people in the towns of Judah, “Your God is coming here!”
Daniel 4:1Several years after Nebuchadnezzar started to rule, he sent this message to the people of every nation and people-group and all language groups in his empire. He wrote, “I wish/hope that everything is going very well with you!
Daniel 6:25Then King Darius wrote this message and sent it throughout his kingdom to the people of every people-group and nation and from all language groups: “I wish/hope that everything is going very well with you!
Micah 6:16Those things will happen to you because you obey only the wicked laws of King Omri, and you do the terrible things that wicked King Ahab and his descendants commanded. So, I will destroy your country, and I will cause your people to be despised; people of other nations will insult you.’”
Matthew Henry on Daniel 3:2-8
Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Image. ( b. c. 587.) 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 3 Then the… Read the whole commentary →