Daniel 3:23–30

²³And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace ⁱ.

²⁴Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up ^kin haste, and spake, and said unto his ^lcounsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. ²⁵He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, ^mwalking in the midst of the fire, and ⁿthey have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like ^othe Son of God. ²⁶Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of ^pthe most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ^qcame forth of the midst of the fire. ²⁷And ^rthe princes, ^rgovernors, and ^rcaptains, and the king’s ^lcounsellers, being gathered together, saw these men, ^supon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their ^ecoats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. ²⁸Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ^twho hath sent ^ouhis angel, and ^udelivered his servants ^vthat trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, ^wexcept their own God. ²⁹Therefore ^xI make a decree, That every ^ypeople, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ^zshall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: ^abecause ^bthere is no other God that can deliver after this sort. ³⁰Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ^cin the province of Babylon.

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