Daniel 3:30

3:30 Then Nebuchadnezzar ¹  promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 3:26

3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire. He called out, ²  “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the most high God, come out! Come here!”

Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego emerged from the fire. ³ 

Daniel 2:49

2:49 And at Daniel’s request, the king ⁴  appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the administration of the province of Babylon. Daniel himself served in the king’s court. ⁵ 

Daniel 3:13

3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in a fit of rage ⁶  demanded that they bring ⁷  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego before him. So they brought them ⁸  before the king.

Daniel 3:16

3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to King Nebuchadnezzar, ⁹  “We do not need to give you a reply ¹⁰  concerning this.

Daniel 3:20

3:20 He ordered strong ¹¹  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 ¹²  of blazing fire while still securely bound. ¹³ 

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 ¹⁴  toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders ¹⁵  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 ¹⁶  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were killed ¹⁷  by the leaping flames. ¹⁸ 

Daniel 3:12

3:12 But there are Jewish men whom you appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon – Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego – and these men ¹⁹  have not shown proper respect to you, O king. They don’t serve your gods and they don’t pay homage to the golden statue that you have erected.”

Daniel 3:28-29

3:28 Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, ²⁰  “Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel ²¹  and has rescued his servants who trusted in him, ignoring ²²  the edict of the king and giving up their bodies rather than ²³  serve or pay homage to any god other than their God! 3:29 I hereby decree ²⁴  that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes ²⁵  the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.”

[3:30]  ¹ tn Aram “and the king.” The proper name has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[3:26]  ² tn Aram “answered and said.”

[3:26]  ³ tn Aram “from the midst of the fire.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

[2:49]  ³ tn Aram “and Daniel sought from the king and he appointed.”

[2:49]  ⁴ tn Aram “was at the gate of the king.”

[3:13]  ⁴ tn Aram “in anger and wrath”; NASB “in rage and anger.” The expression is a hendiadys.

[3:13]  ⁵ tn The Aramaic infinitive is active.

[3:13]  ⁶ 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]  ⁶ tn This is sometimes taken as a comparative: “[some of the] strongest.”

[3:23]  ⁷ tn Aram “into the midst of the furnace.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

[3:23]  ⁸ 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.

[3:19]  ⁸ 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.”

[3:19]  ⁹ tn Aram “he answered and said.”

[3:22]  ⁹ tn Aram “caused to go up.”

[3:22]  ¹⁰ tn The Aramaic verb is active.

[3:22]  ¹¹ tn Aram “the flame of the fire” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NRSV “the raging flames.”

[3:12]  ¹⁰ sn Daniel’s absence from this scene has sparked the imagination of commentators, some of whom have suggested that perhaps he was unable to attend the dedication due to sickness or due to being away on business. Hippolytus supposed that Daniel may have been watching from a distance.

[3:28]  ¹¹ tn Aram “answered and said.”

[3:28]  ¹² 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).

[3:28]  ¹³ tn Aram “they changed” or “violated.”

[3:28]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “so that they might not.”

[3:29]  ¹² tn Aram “from me is placed an edict.”

[3:29]  ¹³ tn Aram “speaks negligence.”