Daniel 3:28

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Daniel 3:28

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Summary

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Blessed

Hath sent

That trusted

And have

Ezra 6:11

Acts 4:19

Yielded

Revelation 12:11

Serve

Daniel 3:16

Exodus 20:5

Matthew 4:10

Bible References

Blessed

The king said to Daniel, “Your God is indeed God of gods, Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”

But at the end of those days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity returned to me. Then I praised the Most High and honored and glorified Him who lives forever:

For His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
and His kingdom is from generation to generation.

I issue a decree that in all my royal dominion, people must tremble in fear before the God of Daniel:

For He is the living God,
and He endures forever;
His kingdom will never be destroyed,
and His dominion has no end.

He also said:

Praise the Lord, the God of Shem;
Canaan will be his slave.

Whoever is among His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem.

Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for the house of the God of heaven, so that wrath will not fall on the realm of the king and his sons.

Hath sent

He exclaimed, “Look! I see four men, not tied, walking around in the fire unharmed; and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths. They haven’t hurt me, for I was found innocent before Him. Also, I have not committed a crime against you my king.”

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

and the Lord sent an angel who annihilated every brave warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned in disgrace to his land. He went to the temple of his god, and there some of his own children struck him down with the sword.

The Angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear Him, and rescues them.

Praise the Lord,
all His angels of great strength,
who do His word,
obedient to His command.

Then the angel of the Lord

went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out, and said,

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him up and said, “Quick, get up!” Then the chains fell off his wrists.

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?

That trusted

They received help against these enemies because they cried out to God in battle, and the Hagrites and all their allies were handed over to them. He granted their request because they trusted in Him.

In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in Yahweh your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

Our fathers trusted in You;
they trusted, and You rescued them.

Now the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him—
those who depend on His faithful love

The Lord redeems the life of His servants,
and all who take refuge in Him will not be punished.

Trust in Him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts before Him.
God is our refuge.Selah

For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
The Lord gives grace and glory;
He does not withhold the good
from those who live with integrity.

Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord his God,

The Lord values those who fear Him,
those who put their hope in His faithful love.

You will keep the mind that is dependent on You
in perfect peace,
for it is trusting in You.

The man who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.

Indeed, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.

who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

And have

I also issue a decree concerning any man who interferes with this directive:

Let a beam be torn from his house and raised up; he will be impaled on it, and his house will be made into a garbage dump because of this offense.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

Yielded

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

They were stoned,

they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.

They conquered him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony,
for they did not love their lives
in the face of death.

Serve

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we don’t need to give you an answer to this question.

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Then Jesus told him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written:

Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only

Him.”