<p class="bodytext">Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel<n id="2" /> and has rescued his servants who trusted in him, ignoring<n id="3" /> the edict of the king and giving up their bodies rather than<n id="4" /> serve or pay homage to any god other than their God!

So they approached the king and said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?&#8221; The king replied, &#8220;That is correct,<n id="2" /> according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.&#8221;