Daniel 3:4 (BSB)

Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “O people of every nation and language, this is what you are commanded:

From Daniel 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 3:4

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 3:4: It is afterwards added — A herald cried out lustily, or among the multitude. This latter explanation does not suit so well — the herald crying amidst the multitude — -since there were a great concourse of nations, and the kingdom of Babylon comprehended many provinces. The herald, therefore, cried with a loud voice, An edict is gone forth for you, O nations, peoples, and tongues.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 3:1-7: We have no certainty concerning the date of this story, only that if this image, which Nebuchadnezzar dedicated, had any relation to that which he dreamed of, it is probable that it happened not long after that; some reckon it to be about the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar, a year before Jehoiachin's captivity, in which Ezekiel was carried away. Observe, I. A golden image set up to be worshipped.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 3:4: Then an herald cried aloud,.... That his voice might be heard all over the plain; or if it should be thought that one was not sufficient to be heard throughout, which probably was the case, and where; so great a number being assembled together, all could not hear one man, the singular may be put for the plural; and many being set in different places...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 3:4: The arguments of the persecutor are in brief, Turn or burn.