Daniel:3:8-18

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* Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near , and brought accusation against the Jews . * They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king , O king , live forever . * Thou , O king , have made a decree , that every man who shall hear the sound of the cornet , flute , harp , sackbut , psaltery , and dulcimer , and all kinds of music , shall fall down and worship the golden image . * And he who does not fall down and worship , shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace . * There are certain Jews whom thou have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon : Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego . These men , O king , have not regarded thee . They do not serve thy gods , nor worship the golden image which * Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his ] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego . Then they brought these men before the king . * Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them , Is it of purpose , O Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego , that ye do not serve my god , nor worship the golden image which I have set up ? * Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet , flute , harp , sackbut , psaltery , and dulcimer , and all kinds of music , ye fall down and worship the image which I have made , [well ]. But if ye do not worship , ye * Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego answered and said to the king , O Nebuchadnezzar , we have no need to answer thee in this matter . * If it be [so ], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace , and he will deliver us out of thy hand , O king . * But if not , be it known to thee , O king , that we will not serve thy gods , nor worship the golden image which thou have set up .

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