Daniel 3:15-17

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15} Now if you are ready, ^(A)at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, ^(a)lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will ^(b)immediately be ^(B)cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and ^(C)what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?”

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16} ^(D)Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter. ^{Tools
17} ^(c)If it be so, our ^(E)God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; ^(d)and ^(F)He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Footnotes:

a. Daniel 3:15: ['V 5, notes 1, 2, 3']

b. Daniel 3:15: ['Or ', in the same hour]

c. Daniel 3:17: ['Or ', If our God...is able]

d. Daniel 3:17: ['Or ', then]

Cross references:

A. Daniel 3:15: Daniel 3:5

B. Daniel 3:15: Daniel 3:6

C. Daniel 3:15: Exodus 5:2; Isaiah 36:18-20; Daniel 2:47

D. Daniel 3:16: Daniel 1:7; Daniel 3:12

E. Daniel 3:17: Job 5:19; Psalm 27:1; Psalm 27:2; Isaiah 26:3; Isaiah 26:4; Jeremiah 1:8; Jeremiah 15:20; Jeremiah 15:21

F. Daniel 3:17: 1 Samuel 17:37; Micah 7:7; 2 Corinthians 1:10