Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Urgent

Bible References

Urgent

Exodus 12:33
The Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.”

Slew

Daniel 6:24
The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
Proverbs 11:8
The righteous is delivered from trouble,
But the wicked takes his place.
Proverbs 21:18
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,
And the treacherous is in the place of the upright.
Zechariah 12:2
“Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.
Matthew 27:5
And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
Acts 12:19
When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there.