Daniel 3:14

3:14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my gods and that you don’t pay homage to the golden statue that I erected?

Daniel 3:19

3:19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed ¹  toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders ²  to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.

Daniel 3:22

3:22 But since the king’s command was so urgent, and the furnace was so excessively hot, the men who escorted ³  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were killed ⁴  by the leaping flames. ⁵ 

¹ tn Aram “the appearance of his face was altered”; cf. NLT “his face became distorted with rage”; NAB “[his] face became livid with utter rage.”

² tn Aram “he answered and said.”

¹ tn Aram “caused to go up.”

² tn The Aramaic verb is active.

³ tn Aram “the flame of the fire” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NRSV “the raging flames.”