Daniel 3:6

Hebrew Bible

5 When you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must bow down and pay homage to the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has erected. 6 Whoever does not bow down and pay homage will immediately be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire! 7 Therefore when they all heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations, and language groups began bowing down and paying homage to the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had erected.

Matthew 13:42

New Testament

40 As the poisonous weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

 Notes and References

"... Although Daniel is not the most influential from the Hebrew Bible upon Matthew, it plays a decisive role in key eschatological facets of the first gospel. The judgment upon the wicked (Matt 13:42, 50; Dan 3:6) and the deliverance of the righteous unto eternal life (Matt 25:46; Dan 12:2) are cast in Danielic terms. So are Matthew’s anticipation of “desolating sacrilege” and “great tribulation”. Matthew clearly identifies the Danielic “son of man” with Jesus, who will “sit on his glorious throne” in the age to come and come “on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory” to gather his elect. εatthew’s Jesus seems to lay claim to the authority given to Daniel’s son of man, and his death precedes the eschatological resurrection anticipated in Daniel (12:2; Matt 27:52) ..."

Gurtner, Daniel M. "Danielic Influence at the Intersection of Matthew and the Dead Sea Scrolls" in Anders Runesson and Daniel M. Gurtner, Ed., Matthew Within Judaism: Israel and the Nations in the First Gospel (pp. 1-24) Society of Biblical Literature, 2019

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