The Amazing Bible. Book Club
Daniel - Chapter 3
Some years have passed between chapter two and three of Daniel. In the Septuagint, LXX, there is a note that chapter 3 happened in the eighteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar's reign, which would have made it 586 BC, the year that Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed. That helps understand why, the king believes he and his god is supreme over the God of the Jews. Nebuchadnezzar build a golden idol, nine feet wide and ninety feet high, and he commanded all people from every nation who heard the music, were to bow down and worship the idol. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego could not do that because of their faith in their God of Heaven. When some Chaldeans saw that, they reported it to the king, whose anger burned. He sent for the men, and they said they could not bow down, and they knew the God they serve, COULD save them, but what they did not know is if He WOULD save them, but either way, they would serve the Lord. The king's anger grew hotter, so he set the furnace hotter. The men were bound in their robes and thrown into the fire, but when Nebuchadnezzar looked in he saw four men, and the One looked like the son of the gods. The King called them out, and the three men came out unbound and unharmed. They were not hurt, nothing was burned, and they did not even smell like a fire. King Nebuchadnezzar praised their God "for no other god can save this way." The men were promoted, plus no one could speak against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Some years have passed between chapter two and three of Daniel. In the Septuagint, LXX, there is a note that chapter 3 happened in the eighteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar's reign, which would have made it 586 BC, the year that Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed. That helps understand why, the king believes he and his god is supreme over the God of the Jews. Nebuchadnezzar build a golden idol, nine feet wide and ninety feet high, and he commanded all people from every nation who heard the music, were to bow down and worship the idol. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego could not do that because of their faith in their God of Heaven. When some Chaldeans saw that, they reported it to the king, whose anger burned. He sent for the men, and they said they could not bow down, and they knew the God they serve, COULD save them, but what they did not know is if He WOULD save them, but either way, they would serve the Lord. The king's anger grew hotter, so he set the furnace hotter. The men were bound in their robes and thrown into the fire, but when Nebuchadnezzar looked in he saw four men, and the One looked like the son of the gods. The King called them out, and the three men came out unbound and unharmed. They were not hurt, nothing was burned, and they did not even smell like a fire. King Nebuchadnezzar praised their God "for no other god can save this way." The men were promoted, plus no one could speak against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.