Daniel 3:23–30

²³But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, ^afell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up.

²⁴Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and stood up in haste; he said to his high officials, “Was it not three men we cast bound into the midst of the fire?” They replied to the king, “Certainly, O king.”

²⁵He said, “Look! I see four men loosed and ^awalking about in the midst of the fire ¹without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the ^bgods!”

²⁶Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of blazing fire; he responded and said, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the ^aMost High God, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego ^bcame out of the midst of the fire.

²⁷The ^asatraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the ^bfire had no ¹effect on ²the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their ^3ctrousers ⁴damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.

²⁸Nebuchadnezzar responded and said, “Blessed be the ^aGod of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, who has ^bsent His angel and delivered His servants who put their ^ctrust in Him, ¹violating the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies so as ^dnot to serve or worship any god except their own God.

²⁹“Therefore I ^amake a decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of ^bShadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their ^chouses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is ^dno other god who is able to deliver in this way.”

³⁰Then the king ^acaused Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego to prosper in the province of Babylon.