certain Jews] Seeing onely the captived with Daniel are accused, we may know that this was afore Jeconias captivitie, some yeer or two, about Nebuchadnezzars seventh yeere.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego] It seemed that they named not Daniel, because he was great in the Kings favour, thinking if these three had been destroyed, they might have had better occasion to accuse Daniel: and this declareth that the policy in erecting this Image was invented by the malicious flatterers which sought nothing but the destruction of the Jews, whom they accused of rebellion and ingratitude.
have not regarded thee] Chald. have set no regard upon thee.