by Wendy Widder | Apr 24, 2012 | Daniel 3, The Book of Daniel
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are usually held up as paragons of faithfulness and of faith – they wouldn’t bow down and they believed God was able to deliver them from the furnace. Whether or not He would deliver them was another matter – but He certainly was able....
by Wendy Widder | Apr 17, 2012 | Daniel 3, How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
The heroes of the fiery furnace story are Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, but they are quiet heroes, speaking a mere forty-one (Hebrew) words in a single speech (vv. 16–18). The Chaldeans and the king are regular chatterboxes by comparison. The Jews are also...
by Wendy Widder | Apr 15, 2012 | Daniel 3, The Book of Daniel
You’ve probably never associated Nebuchadnezzar with any part of Christmas – and I can understand why – but I’ve found a connection. As a child of the 70s, I loved the Christmas TV special The Year Without a Santa Claus – not because I wished for such a year (though...
by Wendy Widder | Apr 11, 2012 | Daniel 3, The Book of Daniel
The king is an arrogant fool in Daniel 3, but the real bad guys in the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are the “Chaldeans,” a group of the king’s experts who specialized in astrology. When the population of Babylon fell down to worship the golden image (which...
by Wendy Widder | Mar 31, 2012 | Daniel 3, How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” is nowhere in the mind of the storyteller of Daniel 3. He fully intends to mock Nebuchadnezzar, and he does so through his use of repetition. But why is he picking on poor old King Nebuchadnezzar? Is he...
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