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**image.** This could not have been an image of a human being. The height and breadth are out of all proportion for this; the former being one to ten instead of one to six. A figure drawn on this scale, will at once be seen to be impossible. Having determined that it is a human figure, tradition then assumes it to have been a proportional figure "on a pedestal", or simply "a bust on a pillar". But there is nothing in the text to suggest this. It would exactly suit an *Asherah* ( App-42 ). The Hebrew *tzelem* denotes something shaped by cutting or carving. [Ezekiel 16:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/16/17) , and Dan 23:14 , practically make this certain. See the verb in [Ezekiel 7:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/7/20) ; and compare what is said in [Numbers 33:52](../../../kjv/numbers/33/52) .
**height . . . breadth.** See above note.
**threescore . . . six.** The numbers of man ( App-10 ). Note the *six* instruments (compare [Daniel 5:7](../../../kjv/daniel/5/7) , [Daniel 5:10](../../../kjv/daniel/5/10) , [Daniel 5:15](../../../kjv/daniel/5/15) ). See note on [1 Samuel 17:4](../../../kjv/1-samuel/17/4) .

**the king sent** . This great Durbar would hardly have taken place till after the campaign referred to in note on "came" ([Daniel 1:1](../../../kjv/daniel/1/1) ). It was therefore probably held about 475 B. C, in Daniel's thirty-eighth year, twenty years after Nebuchadnezzar's dream of himself, the "head of gold" ([Daniel 2](../../../kjv/daniel/2) ).
**to gather together, &c** . Note the eight technical terms. Well known to Daniel, but difficult for a Jew in Jer 300 years later to enumerate so minutely and so accurately.
**princes** = satraps.
**governors** . See note on [Daniel 2:48](../../../kjv/daniel/2/48) .
**captains** = pashas (as in [Nehemiah 5:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/14) , [Nehemiah 5:18](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/18) . [Haggai 1:14](../../../kjv/haggai/1/14) ), the first three being *governmental.*
**judges** = viziers, or chief judges.
**treasurers:** these two being *courtiers.*
**counsellors** = counsellors of State, judges. The same word as in [Daniel 3:3](../../../kjv/daniel/3/3) . Not the same word as in verses: [Daniel 3:24](../../../kjv/daniel/3/24) , [Daniel 3:27](../../../kjv/daniel/3/27) .
**sheriffs** = lawyers; these two being *legal* .
**rulers, &c** . = superintendents, being *functional* and general.

**herald** . Chaldee. *karo* z *a* '. Not from the Greek *kerux,* but an old Persian word *khresic',* a crier, from which comes the Chaldee verb *k* evar, to make a proclamation, as in [Daniel 5:29](../../../kjv/daniel/5/29) .
**people** = peoples, or nations.
**nations** = races, or tribes.
**languages** = tongues. Figure of speech *Catabasis.* App-6 .

**cornet, &c.** These names are supposed to be Greek, or from the Greek; but Athenaeus, a Greek grammarian (about A.D. 200-300), says the *sambuke* ("sack-but") was a Syriac invention. Strabo, in his geography (54 B.C. A.D. 24), ascribes Greek music to Asia, and says: "the Athenians always showed their admiration of foreign customs".
**harp** . Chaldee. *kithros* ; Greek. *kithara.* Terpander, a Greek musician (seventh century B. C), the father of Greek music, invented the *kithara* with seven strings (Strabo says) instead of four, and one is sculptured on a monument of Assurbanipal (Lenormant, *La Divination chez les Chaldiens,* pp 190, 191).
**sackbut** . See note on "cornet", above.
**hour** = moment. Chaldee sha' *ah* , as in verses: [Daniel 3:3](../../../kjv/daniel/3/3) , [Daniel 3:6](../../../kjv/daniel/3/6) , [Daniel 3:15](../../../kjv/daniel/3/15) ; [Daniel 4:33](../../../kjv/daniel/4/33) ; [Daniel 5:5](../../../kjv/daniel/5/5) .

**certain** = men: probably our grandees. Plural of Chaldee. *g* ebar. App-14 .
**Chaldeans** . See note on [Daniel 1:4](../../../kjv/daniel/1/4) .

**man.** Chaldee ' *anash* . App-14 .

**Shadrach, &c** . See note on [Daniel 1:7](../../../kjv/daniel/1/7) .
**men** = strong men, or grandees. Plural of Chaldee. *gebar* . App-14 .
**gods** . Chaldee ' *elah* . App-4 .

**true** = of set purpose.

**well** . Note the Figure of speech *Aposiopesis* ( App-6 ). Or, supply [well and good].
**God** . Chaldee ' *elah* . App-4 .

**answered and said** . See note on [Deuteronomy 1:41](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/41) .
**are not careful** = do not account it needful.

**is able to deliver us** . The Massoretic pointing requires this punctuation: "to deliver us; from the burning fiery furnace He will deliver us".

**the.** The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "thy".

**full of** = filled with, form = appearance.
visage = countenance.

**most mighty men** . Chaldee = mighty [ones] of strength.
**to bind.** Chaldee. *kephath.* Occurs only here and verses: [Daniel 3:21](../../../kjv/daniel/3/21) , [Daniel 3:23](../../../kjv/daniel/3/23) , [Daniel 3:24](../../../kjv/daniel/3/24) .

**coats** = cloaks, or mantles.
**hosen** = tunics.
**hats** = turbans, mantles, or cloaks.

**commandments word** .
**those men** = those very men.

**counsellors:** or, ministers [standing near] to him; either to his throne or near at the time. Chaldee. *haddabrin.* Not the same word as in verses: [Daniel 3:2](../../../kjv/daniel/3/2) , [Daniel 3:3](../../../kjv/daniel/3/3) .

**the son of God** = a son of God (no Art.): i.e. a superhuman being, or an angel. Compare [Daniel 3:28](../../../kjv/daniel/3/28) , and see App-23 . Nebuchadnezzar could know nothing of N.T. revelation.

**mouth** = door.

**saw** = kept gazing upon.
**changed:** or, discolored.

**speak, &c** . = charge any fault or error.
**amiss:** or, rash. Compare [2 Samuel 6:7](../../../kjv/2-samuel/6/7) , as Nebuchadnezzar himself had done.
**cut in pieces, &c** See note on [Daniel 2:5](../../../kjv/daniel/2/5) .
**deliver** = rescue.

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