Daniel 3:6

Daniel 3:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
• New International Version (NIV)Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace."
• New King James Version (NKJV)and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.”

Context of Daniel 3:6

4Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “You are commanded O peoples, nations and languages, 5that when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. Whoever does not fall down and worship will that same hour be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.” 7Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and pipes, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations and languages fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 8At that time certain Chaldeans came forward and denounced the Jews.

Daniel 3:6 word by word

וּמַן־דִּי־לָ֥א יִפֵּ֖ל וְיִסְגֻּ֑ד בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֣א יִתְרְמֵ֔א לְגֽוֹא־אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And whosoמָןmân · who?H4479
• fallethנְפַלnephal · to fallH5308
• notלָאlâ' lâh · notH3809
• and worshippethסְגִ֑דsegid · to do homageH5457
• shall the same hourשָׁעָהshâ‛âh · momentH8160
• be castרְמָאremâh · to castH7412
• into the midstגַּוgav · midstH1459
• of a burningיְקַדyeqad · to burnH3345
• fieryנוּרnûr · fireH5135
• furnaceאַתּוּן'attûn · furnaceH861

Cross-references for Daniel 3:6

• Daniel 3:11and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.
• Exodus 20:5Do not bow down to them, do not let anyone make you serve them. For I, Adonai your God, am a jealous God, bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
• Isaiah 44:17Yet with the rest he makes a god, his carved image. He falls down before it and worships. He even prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”
• Matthew 4:9And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”
• Revelation 13:15The second beast was permitted to give life to the image of the first beast, so that the image of the beast could even speak and cause all who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
• Daniel 2:5The king answered the Chaldeans saying, “I firmly decree: If you do not make the dream and its meaning known to me, you will be torn limb from limb and your houses reduced to rubble.
• Mark 6:27Immediately the king sent an executioner and gave orders to bring John’s head. And the executioner went out and beheaded John in the prison,
• Genesis 19:28and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward the entire land of the surrounding area, and saw, behold, the smoke of the land ascended like smoke from a furnace.
• Jeremiah 29:22So a curse will be taken up by everyone in exile from Judah who are in Babylon, saying: ‘May Adonai make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire’—
• Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me—all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace—they are the dross of silver.”
• Matthew 13:42They will throw them into the fiery furnace; in that place will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Revelation 9:2He opened the pit, and smoke rose from the pit like the smoke of a gigantic furnace. The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
• Revelation 14:11The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. Those who worship the beast and its image and those who receive the mark of his name have no rest day or night.”

Commentaries on Daniel 3:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Shall the same hour - This is the first place in the Old Testament where we find the division of time into hours. The Greeks say that Anaximander was the inventor. He had it probably from the Chaldeans, among whom this division was in use long before Anaximander was born. Be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace - This was an ancient mode of punishment among the Chaldeans, if we may credit the tradition that Abram was cast into such a fire by…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth - The order in this verse seems to be tyrannical, and it is contrary to all our notions of freedom of religious opinion and worship. But it was much in the spirit of that age, and indeed of almost every age. It was an act to enforce uniformity in religion by the authority of the civil magistrate, and to secure it by threatened penalties. It should be observed, however, that the command at that time would not be…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-30Nebuchadnezzar's obsession with power might have been fueled by the vision in Daniel 2. This obsession led him to build a golden statue and order everyone in his empire to worship it. He did not understand that God cannot be contained in any created object. The three young Hebrews refused to worship the statue as a god. They remained faithful to the Lord, and the Lord saved them from the king's anger.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. No other nation but the Jews would feel this edict oppressive; for it did not prevent them worshipping their own gods besides. It was evidently aimed at the Jews by those jealous of their high position in the king's court, who therefore induced the king to pass an edict as to all recusants, representing such refusal of homage as an act of treason to Nebuchadnezzar as civil and religious "head" of the empire. So the edict under Darius (Da 6:7-9) was…Read the comment

Topics related to Daniel 3:6

• Coercion
• Fire
• Furnace
• Idolatry
• Indictments
• Music
• Proclamation
• Rulers

In the dictionaries

• Adore
• Day
• Dial
• Furnace
• Hour
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Abed-Nego
• Adoration
• Aramaic; Aramaic Language
• Bible, the

Commentaries on Daniel 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings