27:003:014 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them,
Is it true, O
Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor
worship
the golden image which I have set up?
27:003:015 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye
hear the sound of the
cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all
kinds
of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which
I
have
made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be
cast the
same
hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and
who
is
that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
27:003:016 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered
and said to the
king,
O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee
in
this
matter.
27:003:017 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able
to deliver us from
the
burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of
thine
hand,
O king.
27:003:018 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king,
that we will not
serve
thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast
set
up.
27:003:019 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and
the form of his
visage
was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego:
therefore
he spake, and commanded that they should heat the
furnace
one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
27:003:020 And he commanded the most mighty men that
were in his army to
bind
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into
the
burning fiery furnace.
27:003:021 Then these men were bound in their coats,
their hosen, and
their
hats, and their other garments, and were cast into
the
midst
of the burning fiery furnace.
27:003:022 Therefore because the king’s commandment
was urgent, and the
furnace
exceeding hot, the flames of the fire slew those men
that
took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
27:003:023 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, fell
down
bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
27:003:024 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied,
and rose up in
haste,
and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we
cast
three men bound into the midst of the fire? They
answered
and
said unto the king, True, O king.
27:003:025 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men
loose, walking in the
midst
of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of
the
fourth
is like the Son of God.
27:003:026 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth
of the burning
fiery
furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego,
ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and
come
hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
came forth
of
the midst of the fire.


