Teks -- Daniel 3:2 (NET)

3:2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent out a summons to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other authorities of the province to attend the dedication of the statue that he had erected.

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JFB: Dan 3:2 - princes

"satraps" of provinces [GESENIUS].

JFB: Dan 3:2 - captains

Rulers, not exclusively military.

JFB: Dan 3:2 - sheriffs

Men learned in the law, like the Arab mufti [GESENIUS].

Clarke: Dan 3:2 - Sent to gather together the princes

Sent to gather together the princes - It is not easy to show what these different offices were, as it is difficult to ascertain the meaning of the Chaldee words. Parkhurst analyzes them thus: -

The Princes - אחשדרפניא achashdarpenaiya , from אחש Achash , great or eminent, and דר dar , "to go about freely,"and פנים panim , "the presence."Satraps or privy counsellors who had free access to the presence of the king

Clarke: Dan 3:2 - The Governors

The Governors - סגניא signaiya , lieutenants or viceroys, for סגן sagan , among the Hebrews, was the name of the high priest’ s deputy

Clarke: Dan 3:2 - The Captains

The Captains - פחותא pachavatha , from פח pach , to extend, because set over those provinces that had been annexed to the kingdom by conquest. Pashas - This word and office are still in use in Asiatic countries. By corruption we pronounce bashaw

Clarke: Dan 3:2 - The Judges

The Judges - אדרגזריא adargazeraiya , from אדר adar , noble or magnificent, and גזר gazar , to decree. The nobles, the assistants to the king in making laws, statutes, etc. The same probably in Babylon, as the House of Lords in England

Clarke: Dan 3:2 - The Treasurers

The Treasurers - גדבריא gedaberaiya , from גנז ganaz , (the ז zain being changed into ד daleth , according to the custom of the Chaldee), to treasure up, and בר bar , pure. Those who kept the current coin, or were over the mint; the treasurers of the exchequer in Babylon

Clarke: Dan 3:2 - The Counsellors

The Counsellors - דתבריא dethaberaiya , from דת dath , a statute, and בר bar , "to declare the meaning of the law;"for in all ages and countries there has been what is termed the glorious uncertainty of the law; and therefore there must be a class of men whose business it is to explain it. What a pity that law cannot be tendered to the people as other sciences are, in plain, unsophisticated, and intelligible terms, and by persons whose business it is to show what is just and right, and not pervert truth, righteousness, and judgment

Clarke: Dan 3:2 - The Sheriffs

The Sheriffs - תפתיא tiphtaye , from תפת taphath , in Hebrew, שפת shaphath , "to set in order."Probably civil magistrates

Clarke: Dan 3:2 - And all the rulers of the provinces

And all the rulers of the provinces - All other state or civil officers, not only to grace the solemnity, but to maintain order. My old Bible renders them: Satrapis, or wise men. Magistratis. Jugis. Duykis, Tyrauntis, or stronge men. Prefectis, and alle the Princes of Cuntreese.

Calvin: Dan 3:2 - NO PHRASE

I do not know the derivation of the word “ Satra p;” but manifestly all these are names of magistracies, and I allow myself to translate the words freely, since they are not Hebrew, and the Jews are equally ignorant of their origin. Some of them, indeed, appear too subtle; but they assert nothing but what is frivolous and foolish. We must be content with the simple expression — he sent to collect the satraps

TSK: Dan 3:2 - sent

sent : Exo 32:4-6; Num 25:2; Jdg 16:23; 1Ki 12:32; Pro 29:12; Rev 17:2

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Poole: Dan 3:2

This great statue, whether Nebuchadnezzar’ s own, or Bel, or any other of his gods, see Dan 3:14 , must be solemnly dedicated, and therefore all the peers of the realm are called to it; but whether these ranks of men and officers are truly rendered from the Chaldee words is hard to determine, and not worth disputing; etymologists differ in it: this only is material, that the heads of all that vast empire were summoned, of several nations and languages, to testify their conformity to the emperor’ s will, and thereby give assurance of obliging the people under them to the same obedience, i.e. to the same idolatrous worship.

It was the manner of the heathen to consecrate their idol before they worshipped it, and herein, as in many other, Satan imitated the Jews, and their temple dedication, Joh 10:22 : they held a feast. The popish church do the like, when they dedicate material temples to particular saints, with solemnity and jollity, from whence come the feasts of wakes and revels to this day.

Haydock: Dan 3:2 - Nobles // Judges // Captains // Rulers // Governors

Nobles. Literally, "satraps," or, "the king's domestics." (Septuagint in 1 Esdras viii. 36.) ---

Judges, or "governors of provinces." (ib. Theodotion, &c.) ---

Captains of the soothsayers. ---

Rulers; "tyrants," here denoting treasurers. (Calmet) ---

Governors. Literally, "the grandees who were in power;" (Haydock) counsellors. The original adds, (Calmet) Thopthia, (Haydock) "lawyers" and orators. The head of the Turkish religion is called muphti, from the root, (Calmet) peti, "to teach." (Haydock)

Gill: Dan 3:2 - Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes // the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces // to come to the dedication of the image, which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes,.... He sent letters, or dispatched messengers, into the several provinces of his empire, and parts of his dominions, to convene all the peers of his realm, and governors of provinces, and all officers, civil, military, and religious, expressed by various names and titles:

the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces; who are particularly and distinctly designed is not easy to say. Jacchiades thinks they answer to the same offices and officers which now obtain in the Turkish empire; princes are the "bashaws"; governors the "beglerbegs"; captains the "agas" of the janizaries; judges the "kadies"; treasurers the "dephterdaries"; the counsellors the "alphakies"; and "zayties the sheriffs"; their chief doctors their "muphties", as L'Empereur; and the rulers of the provinces the "zangiakies" or "viziers"; but, be they who they will, they were the principal men of the empire, both in things civil, military, and ecclesiastic, who were ordered

to come to the dedication of the image, which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; for though it was made and set up, it was not a proper object of worship till dedicated; and which was done by burning incense, blowing trumpets, &c. now these great men were gathered together on this occasion, because of the greater honour done hereby to the king and his image; and also by their example to engage the populace the more easily to the worship of it; and likewise as being the representatives of them since they could not all be collected together in one place; and it may be it was done, as some think, to ensnare Daniel and his companions. Philostratus ^f makes mention of an officer at Babylon that had the keeping of the great gate into the city; which some take to be the same with the first sort here mentioned; who first offered the golden statue of the king to be worshipped before he would permit any to enter into the city, which perhaps might take its rise from the worship of this golden image.