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 ¹  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were killed ²  by the leaping flames. ³ 

Daniel 3:27-28

3:27 Once the satraps, prefects, governors, and ministers of the king had gathered around, they saw that those men were physically ⁴  unharmed by the fire. ⁵  The hair of their heads was not singed, nor were their trousers damaged. Not even the smell of fire was to be found on them!

3:28 Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, ⁶  “Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel ⁷  and has rescued his servants who trusted in him, ignoring ⁸  the edict of the king and giving up their bodies rather than ⁹  serve or pay homage to any god other than their God!

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.”

⁴ tn Aram “in their bodies.”

⁵ tn Aram “the fire did not have power.”

⁶ tn Aram “answered and said.”

⁷ sn The king identifies the “son of the gods” (v. 25) as an angel. Comparable Hebrew expressions are used elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible for the members of God’s angelic assembly (see Gen 6:2, 4; Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Pss 29:1; 89:6). An angel later comes to rescue Daniel from the lions (Dan 6:22).

⁸ tn Aram “they changed” or “violated.”

⁹ tn Aram “so that they might not.”