2Sa 19:26-27, Dan 3:8-18, 6:13, 24, Rom 14:4 | ESV | STEP | He answered , My lord , O king , my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king . For your servant is lame .

26 He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate Saddle a donkey for me} that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For ^byour servant is lame. 27 ^cHe has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is ^dlike the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

Daniel 3:8-18

The Fiery Furnace

8 Therefore at that time certain ^eChaldeans ^fcame forward and maliciously accused the Jews. 9 They declared ^{▼▼Aramaic answered and said; also verses 24, 26} to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever! 10 You, O king, ^hhave made a decree, that every man who ⁱhears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, ^jshall fall down and worship the golden image. 11 And whoever does not fall down and worship ^kshall be cast into a burning fiery furnace. 12 There are certain Jews whom you have ^lappointed over the affairs of ^mthe province of Babylon: ⁿShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, ^opay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

13 Then Nebuchadnezzar ^pin furious rage commanded that ^qShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up? 15 Now if you are ready when ^ryou hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. ^{▼▼Aramaic lacks well and good} But if you do not worship, ^tyou shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And ^uwho is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

16 ^vShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, ^wour God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. ^{▼▼Or If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, he will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and out of your hand, O king.} 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

Daniel 6:13

13 Then they answered and said before the king, ^y“Daniel, who is one ^zof the exiles ^aafrom Judah, ^abpays no attention to you, O king, or ^acthe injunction you have signed, but makes his petition ^adthree times a day.”

Daniel 6:24

24 And the king commanded, and ^aethose men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.

Romans 14:4

4 ^afWho are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master ^{▼▼Or lord} that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.