Page 2 - 03 The Fiery Ordeal

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 3 – The Fiery Ordeal
Chapter 3 — The Fiery Ordeal

VERSE 1. Nebuchadnezzar the king made an

image of gold, whose height was threescore

cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; he

set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of

Babylon.

THERE is a conjecture extant that this image

had some reference to the dream of the king

as described in the previous chapter, it having

been erected only twenty-three years

subsequently, according to the marginal

chronology. In that dream the head was of

gold, representing Nebuchadnezzar’s

kingdom. That was succeeded by metals of

inferior quality, denoting a succession of

kingdoms. Nebuchadnezzar was doubtless

quite gratified that his kingdom should be

represented by the gold; but that it should