Page 7 - 03 The Fiery Ordeal

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 3 – The Fiery Ordeal
and counterfeit! The worship was

accompanied with music; and whoso should

fail to participate therein was threatened with

a fiery furnace. Such are ever the strongest

motives to impel men in any direction, —

pleasure on the one hand, pain on the other.

Verse 6 contains the first mention to be found

in the Bible of the division of time into hours.

It was probably the invention of the

Chaldeans.

VERSE 8. Wherefore at that time certain

Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. 9.

They spake and said to the king

Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever. 10.

Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every

man that shall hear the sound of the cornet,

flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,

and all kinds of music, shall fall down and