Daniel 3:22
Because the fire had been made very hot because the king had very strongly ordered them to do that, the flames leaped out and killed the soldiers as they were throwing the men into the fire!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
21So the soldiers tied them up and threw them into the furnace, while they were wearing their clothes.
23So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego fell into the roaring flames.
Cross References
Exodus 12:33Then the Israeli people did as Moses/I had told them. They went to their Egyptian neighbors and asked them for silver and gold jewelry and clothing.
Proverbs 11:8Yahweh rescues righteous people from their troubles/difficulties; instead, it is the wicked who will have troubles.
Daniel 1:7But Ashpenaz gave us Babylonian names. The name he gave to me was Belteshazzar, the name he gave to Hananiah was Shadrach, the name he gave to Mishael was Meshach, and the name he gave to Azariah was Abednego.
Daniel 6:24Then the king commanded that the men who had accused me should be seized and be thrown, along with their wives and children, into the pit where the lions were. When they were thrown into the pit, the lions leaped on them and crushed their bones before they fell onto the bottom of the pit!
Matthew 27:5So Judas took the money and threw it inside the Temple. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 3:20-28
The Three Hebrews in the Furnace; Deliverance from the Furnace. ( b. c. 587.) 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. 20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were bound in their coats,… Read the whole commentary →