Daniel 3:16-28 Then answered Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee a word in this matter.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ Then answered Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee a word in this matter. ¹⁷ Behold, there is our God whom we worship, he is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace: and out of thy hand, O king, will he deliver us. ¹⁸ But if not, then be it known unto thee, O king, that thy god will we not worship, and to the golden image which; thou hast set up will we not bow ourselves. ¹⁹ Then was Nebuchadnezzar filled with fury, and the form of his countenance was changed because of Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego; and he commenced and ordered that they should heat the furnace thoroughly seven times more than it was wont to be heated. ²⁰ And he ordered the mightiest men in strength that were in his army, to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then were these men bound in their mantles, their under-garments, and their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²² Now, because the king’s command was so urgent, and the furnace exceedingly heated, the flame of the fire slew those men that carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego. ²³ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²⁴ Then was king Nebuchadnezzar astonished, and he rose up in haste, and commenced, and said unto his counsellors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, Certainly, O king. ²⁵ He answered and said, Lo, I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no injury on them; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods. ²⁶ Then came Nebuchadnezzar near to the door of the burning fiery furnace, commenced, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, step forth, and come hither. Then stepped Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego forth out of the midst of the fire. ²⁷ And the lieutenants, superintendents, and governors, and the king’s counsellors, being assembled together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had had no power, and the hair of whose head was not singed, whose mantles were not changed, and on whom there was not come the smell of fire. ²⁸ Then commenced Nebuchadnezzar, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and ‘Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that had trusted in him, and had transgressed the king’s word, and yielded up their bodies, that they might not worship no bow themselves to any god, except their own God.