Dan 3:17-27 | ESV | STEP | If this be so, our 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 .

17 If this be so, ^aour 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.”

19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was ^cfilled with fury, and the expression of his face ^dwas changed against ^eShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated. 20 And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army ^fto bind ^gShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were ^hbound in their cloaks, their tunics, ^{▼▼The meaning of the Aramaic words rendered cloaks and tunics is uncertain; also verse 27} their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. 22 Because the king’s order was ^jurgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up ^kShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell ^lbound into the burning fiery furnace.

24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was ^mastonished and rose up ⁿin haste. He declared to his ^ocounselors, “Did we not cast three men ^pbound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” 25 He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, ^qwalking in the midst of the fire, and they ^rare not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like ^sa son of the gods.”

26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, ^t“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the ^uMost High God, come out, and come here!” Then ^vShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire. 27 And the ^wsatraps, the prefects, the governors, and ^xthe king’s counselors gathered together and saw that ^ythe fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their ^zcloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.