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Daniel 3:24
Suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and asked his advisers, “Did we not throw three men, firmly bound, into the fire?” “Certainly, O king,” they replied.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — King Nebuchadnezzar addresses his royal advisers immediately after the furnace event, asking whether they truly cast three bound men into the flames. The advisers confirm the king's account without hesitation.
The words — The Hebrew תְּוַ֖הּ (te.Vah) denotes being alarmed or startled, paired with בְּ/הִתְבְּהָלָ֑ה (be./hit.be.ha.Lah), meaning in haste or amazement. These terms capture the king's sudden, unsettled reaction to an unexpected sight.
The thread — This moment of royal shock parallels the sudden divine interventions recorded in Daniel 6:22, where God halts expected violence, and echoes the administrative anxieties detailed in Daniel 6:7.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that human authority cannot contain or explain divine presence, requiring the reader to account for what lies beyond observable reality.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
Cross-references
- Daniel 6:7 All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.
- Daniel 6:22 My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”
- 1 Samuel 17:55 As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
- Daniel 3:2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other officials of the provinces to attend the dedication of the statue he had set up.
- Daniel 3:9 saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, may you live forever!
- Daniel 3:17 If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.
- Daniel 4:22 you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.
- Daniel 4:27 Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
- Daniel 5:6 his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.
- Daniel 5:18 As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.