Once again, a big episode : the king of Babylon builds a huge statue and asks everybody to worship it if they don’t want to be burn alive in a furnace. In this chapter, we are told about Daniel’s three companions who are brought in front of the king of Babylon : once again he asks them to worship the statue. Their answer is quite clear :
Daniel 3 :16-18 :
« Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful 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 thine hand, O king. »
« But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. »
So the king asks the furnace to heat up at its maximum (seven times hotter than usual). The men who throw Daniel’s companions are killed by the flames of the fire. Then the king of Babylonia starts to be afraid because he sees four men in the furnace instead of three. As a consequence he asks the three men to go out of the furnace and he issues an order so that the people who speak against their God to be killed. Finally he promotes them.
A lot to think about !
Daniel 3 :16-18 :
« Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful 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 thine hand, O king. »
« But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. »
So the king asks the furnace to heat up at its maximum (seven times hotter than usual). The men who throw Daniel’s companions are killed by the flames of the fire. Then the king of Babylonia starts to be afraid because he sees four men in the furnace instead of three. As a consequence he asks the three men to go out of the furnace and he issues an order so that the people who speak against their God to be killed. Finally he promotes them.
A lot to think about !
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