Identifier: scripturehistory00berg (find matches)
Title: The Scripture history of idolatry, showing the connexion between the traditions of pagan mythology and the Bible ..
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Berg, Joseph F. (Joseph Frederick), 1812-1871
Subjects: Idols and images Mythology
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ds of music, ye fall down and worship the image, which I have made, well;but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour, into the midst of a burning fiery furnace;and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands ? But they were not to be cajoled by promises nor terrified by threats, into disobedience of the command given to them by the Lord Jehovah, Thou shalt have none other gods before me. They refused to worship the kings golden image, telling Nebuchadnezzar, that if their God saw fit, he was well able to deliver them out of the furnace, and if such was not the Lords pleasure, they would rather be burnt up, than violate the law of their God. This answer threw the vindictive monarch into a greater rage than ever; and full of fury, he gave orders to have the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated, and commanded his mightiest men to take these three Jews and throw them into the fire. It was done—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego fell into the flames of the furnace,
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THE IDOL-GODS OF THE CHALD.EAXS. 77 which was so hot that the men who cast in the servants of the Lord, were burned to death. The Lord in whom they trusted, was able to deliver them, and did save them. The Son of God came to their rescue—the flames had no power over them, and they walked together with the Saviour, unhurt, through the midst of the fire. Thus God magnified his power in the sight of these people, and his servants by their steadfastness were enabled to glorify him. Nebuchadnezzar made a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, andAbednego in the province of Babylon. (Dan. hi.) 2. Nebo was another idol of the Babylonians, from which the names Nebuchadnezzar, Nebusaraddan, and also Abednego were derived, (Is.xlvi. 1; Jer. x

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