Daniel 3:6

Anyone who refuses to do that will be thrown into a blazing furnace!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

In Context

5When you hear the sounds made by the trumpets, the flutes, the guitars, the harps, the wind instruments, and all the other musical instruments, bow down to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s gold statue.

7So when all those people who had gathered heard the sounds made by the musical instruments, they all bowed down to worship the statue.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You must not bow down to any idol and worship it, because I am Yahweh God, and I ◄am very jealous/want you to worship me only►. I will punish those who sin and hate me. I will punish not only them, but I will punish ◄their descendants, down to the third and fourth generation/their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren►.

Jeremiah 29:22Because of what will happen to them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be killed by being burned in a fire.’

Daniel 2:5But the king replied, “I have firmly decided that you must tell me the dream, and also tell me what it means. If you do not do that, I will order my soldiers to cut you into pieces, and to cause your houses to become only piles of stones!

Daniel 3:11You also decreed that those who refused to do that would be thrown into a blazing furnace.

Daniel 3:21So the soldiers tied them up and threw them into the furnace, while they were wearing their clothes.

Matthew 4:9And then he said to him, “I will let you rule all these nations and give you the magnificent things in them if you bow down and worship me.”

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 →

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