3:24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was startled and quickly got up. He said to his ministers, “Wasn’t it three men that we tied up and threw 3 into 4 the fire?” They replied to the king, “For sure, O king.”
1 tn Aram “into the midst of the furnace.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.
2 sn The deuterocanonical writings known as The Prayer of Azariah and The Song of the Three present at this point a confession and petition for God’s forgiveness and a celebration of God’s grace for the three Jewish youths in the fiery furnace. Though not found in the Hebrew/Aramaic text of Daniel, these compositions do appear in the ancient Greek versions.
3 tn Aram “we threw…bound.”
4 tn Aram “into the midst of.”