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Daniel 3 📜 📕 ↷
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Accused
8 And forthwith in the very same time men of Chaldee coming accused the Jews,📜💬📚
9 and said to Nabuchodonosor the king: King for ever live:📜💬📚
10 thou, o king hast made a decree, that every man which shall hear the sound of the trumpet, of the pipe, and harp, of the dulcimer, and psalter, of the symphony, and of all kind of musical instruments, prostrate himself, and adore the golden statua:📜💬📚
11 and if any man do not prostrate on the ground adore, that he be cast into a furnace of burning fire.📜💬📚
12 There are therefore men of Jewry, whom thou didst appoint over the works of the country of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men, o king, have contemned thy decree: thy gods they worship not, and the golden statua, which thou hast erected, they adore not.📜💬📚
13 Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and in wrath commanded, that Sidrach, Misach, & Abdenago should be brought: who immediately were brought before the king.📜💬📚
14 And Nabuchodonosor the king pronouncing, said to them: In deed Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, do not you worship my gods, & the golden statua that I have set up do not you adore?📜💬📚
15 Now therefore if you be ready, in what hour soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, the pipe, the harp, of the dulcimer, and psalter, and symphony, and of all kind of musical instruments, prostrate your selves, & adore the statua which I have made: but if you adore not, the self same hour you shall be cast into the furnace of burning fire: and what God is there that shall deliver you out of my hand?📜💬📚
16 Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago answering said to king Nabuchodonosor: We must not answer thee concerning this thing.📜💬📚
17 For behold our God, whom we worship, can save us from the furnace of burning fire, and out of thy hands, o king, deliver us.📜💬📚
18 But if he will not, be it known to thee, o king, that we worship not thy gods, & the golden statua, which thou hast erected, we adore not.📜💬📚
Fiery Furnace
19 Then was Nabuchodonosor replenished with fury: and the look of his face was altered upon Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more, than it had been accustomed to be heated.📜💬📚
20 And commanded the strongest men of his host, to bind the feet of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast them into the furnace of burning fire.📜💬📚
21 And forthwith those men being bound with their breeches, and head attire, and shoes, and garments were cast into the furnace of burning fire.📜💬📚
22 For the commandment of the king did urge, and the furnace was heated exceedingly. Moreover the flame of the fire slew those men, that had cast in Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago.📜💬📚
23 But these three men, that is, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago fell in the midst of the furnace of burning fire, bound together.📜💬📚
24 And they walked in the midst of the flame praising God, and blessing our Lord.📜💬📚
25 And Azarias standing prayed thus, and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire, he said:📜💬📚
26 Blessed art thou o Lord the God of our fathers, and laudable, and glorious is thy name for ever:📜💬📚
27 because thou art just in all things, which thou hast done to us, and all thy works are true, and thy ways right, and all thy judgements true.📜💬📚
28 For thou hast done true judgements according to all things, that thou hast brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers Jerusalem: because in truth, & in judgement thou hast brought in all these things for our sins.📜💬📚
29 For we have sinned, and done unjustly revolting from thee: and we have offended in all things;📜💬📚
30 and thy precepts we have not heard, nor observed, nor done as thou hadst commanded us, that it might be well with us.📜💬📚
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