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 3:24-25

God Delivers His Servants

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 ⁴  into ⁵  the fire?” They replied to the king, “For sure, O king.” 3:25 He answered, “But I see four men, untied and walking around in the midst of the fire! No harm has come to them! And the appearance of the fourth is like that of a god!” ⁶ 

Daniel 3:27

3:27 Once the satraps, prefects, governors, and ministers of the king had gathered around, they saw that those men were physically ⁷  unharmed by the fire. ⁸  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!

[3:22]  ¹ tn Aram “caused to go up.”

[3:22]  ² tn The Aramaic verb is active.

[3:22]  ³ tn Aram “the flame of the fire” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NRSV “the raging flames.”

[3:24]  ⁴ tn Aram “we threw…bound.”

[3:24]  ⁵ tn Aram “into the midst of.”

[3:25]  ⁷ sn The phrase like that of a god is in Aramaic “like that of a son of the gods.” Many patristic writers understood this phrase in a christological sense (i.e., “the Son of God”). But it should be remembered that these are words spoken by a pagan who is seeking to explain things from his own polytheistic frame of reference; for him the phrase “like a son of the gods” is equivalent to “like a divine being.”

[3:27]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “in their bodies.”

[3:27]  ¹¹ tn Aram “the fire did not have power.”