Daniel 3:15-17

International Standard Version

¹⁵ Now, if you are ready at this very moment to obey ‘the sound of the trumpet, the flute, the lyre, the four-stringed lyre, and the harp,’ and worship the image that I have made… If you do not so worship, you will immediately have cast yourselves into the middle of the blazing fire, and what god is there who can deliver you from my power?”^[a]

Daniel’s Friends Answer King Nebuchadnezzar

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, “It’s not necessary for us to respond in this matter. ¹⁷ Your majesty, if it be his will,^[b] our God whom we serve can deliver us from the blazing fire furnace, and he will deliver us from you.^[c]