Daniel 3:14-16

Lexham English Bible

¹⁴ Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you are not serving my god, and you are not worshiping the statue of gold^[a] that I have set up? ¹⁵ Now if you are ready so that when^[b] you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and the drum and all kinds of music, you fall down and you worship the statue that I have made, that will be good. But if you do not worship it, immediately^[c] you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god^[d] who^[e] will rescue you from my hands?”

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, “We have no need on this matter to present a defense to you.^[f]