Dan 3:14-15, 5:19, Joh 18:39 | ESV | STEP | 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 ?

c[See ver. 6 above]

gFor ver. 39, 40, see Matt. 27:15-18, 20-23; Mark 15:6-14; Luke 23:18-23

Daniel 3:14-15

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 ^ayou 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, ^cyou shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And ^dwho is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

Daniel 5:19

19 And because of the greatness that he gave him, ^eall peoples, nations, and languages ^ftrembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled.

John 18:39

39 ^gBut you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”