Therefore I make a decree
Or, a "decree is made by me" {w}; which is as follows: that
every people, nation, and language, which speak anything
amiss
against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego;
anything indecent, blasphemous, or by way of contempt: he does
not give orders that their God should be worshipped or signify
that he would worship him himself, and quit his false deities;
no, only that he should not be spoken against, as very probably
before this time he was, to the great grief of these good men;
and to whom, therefore such an edict would be grateful, though no
more could be obtained; by which it was enacted, that any such
person, so blaspheming and reproaching, shall be cut to
pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill;
(See Gill on Daniel
2:5); because there is no other god that can
deliver after this manner;
no, not even Bel himself, as was plain; for he could not deliver
the men at the mouth of the furnace, that cast in these three,
for they were destroyed by the force of the flame and smoke that
came out; but the true God delivered the three men cast in, even
in the midst of it; this was beyond all contradiction, and
therefore he could not but own it.