Daniel 3:6

6 ¡Cualquiera que se rehúse a obedecer, será arrojado inmediatamente a un horno ardiente!».

Daniel 3:6 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 3:6

And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth
Who refuses to worship it, or wilfully neglects it; which would be interpreted a contempt of it, and of the king's command: shall in the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery
furnace;
such as were used to burn stones in for lime, as Jarchi observes: the music was to draw, the furnace was to drive, men to this idolatrous worship; the one was to please and sooth the minds of men, and so allure them to such stupid service; the other to frighten them into obedience. This is the first time that mention is made of "hours" in the sacred Scriptures; it was very probably the invention of the Chaldeans or Babylonians; for Herodotus ^F13 says the Greeks received the twelve parts of the day from the Babylonians.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 109.

Daniel 3:6 In-Context

4 Entonces un vocero proclamó: «¡Gente de todas las razas, naciones y lenguas escuchen el mandato del rey!

5 Cuando oigan tocar la trompeta, la flauta, la cítara, la lira, el arpa, la zampoña y otros instrumentos musicales,
inclínense rostro en tierra y rindan culto a la estatua de oro del rey Nabucodonosor.

6 ¡Cualquiera que se rehúse a obedecer, será arrojado inmediatamente a un horno ardiente!».

7 Así que al sonido de los instrumentos musicales,
toda la gente, de cualquier raza, nación o lengua, se inclinó rostro en tierra y rindió culto a la estatua de oro que había levantado el rey Nabucodonosor.

8 Sin embargo, algunos de los astrólogos
se presentaron ante el rey y denunciaron a los judíos.