Daniel 2:49

2:49 And at Daniel’s request, the king ¹  appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the administration of the province of Babylon. Daniel himself served in the king’s court. ² 

Daniel 3:13

3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in a fit of rage ³  demanded that they bring ⁴  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego before him. So they brought them ⁵  before the king.

Daniel 3:16

3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to King Nebuchadnezzar, ⁶  “We do not need to give you a reply ⁷  concerning this.

Daniel 3:20

3:20 He ordered strong ⁸  soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire.

Daniel 3:23

3:23 But those three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell into the furnace ⁹  of blazing fire while still securely bound. ¹⁰ 

Daniel 6:27

6:27 He rescues and delivers

and performs signs and wonders

in the heavens and on the earth.

He has rescued Daniel from the power ¹¹  of the lions!”

[2:49]  ¹ tn Aram “and Daniel sought from the king and he appointed.”

[2:49]  ² tn Aram “was at the gate of the king.”

[3:13]  ³ tn Aram “in anger and wrath”; NASB “in rage and anger.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[3:13]  ⁴ tn The Aramaic infinitive is active.

[3:13]  ⁵ tn Aram “these men.” The pronoun is used in the translation to avoid undue repetition.

[3:16]  ⁵ tc In the MT this word is understood to begin the following address (“answered and said to the king, ‘O Nebuchadnezzar’”). However, it seems unlikely that Nebuchadnezzar’s subordinates would address the king in such a familiar way, particularly in light of the danger that they now found themselves in. The present translation implies moving the atnach from “king” to “Nebuchadnezzar.”

[3:16]  ⁶ tn Aram “to return a word to you.”

[3:20]  ⁷ tn This is sometimes taken as a comparative: “[some of the] strongest.”

[3:23]  ⁹ tn Aram “into the midst of the furnace.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

[3:23]  ¹⁰ 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.

[6:27]  ¹¹ tn Aram “hand.”