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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
[People]Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were young men of Judah taken captive to Babylon and the three companions of Daniel. They refused to bow down to King Nebuchadnezzar's golden image, were thrown into a fiery furnace, and came out alive.
Daniel 3:17–18
[Bible Verses]Daniel 3:17–18 is the reply of Daniel's three friends before the fiery furnace: God was able to deliver them, "but if not," they would still not bow to the king's image. It is a classic passage on faith that holds firm regardless of the outcome and is often cited in discussions of faith under persecution and, in Korea, of the history of resistance to Shinto shrine worship.
Daniel 3
[Bible]Daniel 3 tells how Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow down to the golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar, were cast into the burning fiery furnace, and came out unharmed.
Daniel 3:24–28
[Bible Verses]This passage describes how the three men cast into King Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace walk out unharmed and how the king then praises their God. It is frequently cited in discussions of the identity of the "fourth" figure who appears in the fire and of faithfulness under persecution.
The Fiery Furnace
[Bible]The fiery furnace episode, recorded in Daniel 3, is the account of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who refused to bow down to the golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar, were thrown into a burning furnace, and came out alive and unharmed.
Daniel 2
[Bible]Daniel 2 is the chapter in which Daniel receives from God, reveals, and interprets King Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a great image. It centers on the vision of an image made of gold, silver, brass, iron, and clay that is broken in pieces by a stone cut out without hands, together with the interpretation of that vision.
Nebuchadnezzar
[People]Nebuchadnezzar was king of the Babylonian (Neo-Babylonian) Empire. He destroyed Jerusalem and its temple and carried the people of Judah into captivity. In the Book of Daniel, he is a central figure in the accounts of his dreams and the fiery furnace.
Daniel 4
[Bible]Daniel 4 is the chapter in which King Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a great tree and, as Daniel had interpreted, lives like a beast for seven times before being restored. He then issues a first-person decree praising the Most High God.
Arioch
[People]Arioch appears in Daniel 2 as the captain of the guard (the chief of the officials responsible for the king's protection and for carrying out executions) under Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. During the episode of the king's dream, he brought Daniel before the king.
Daniel 1
[Bible]The first chapter of the Book of Daniel. It tells how Daniel and his three friends, taken captive to Babylon, refused the king's food, were tested for ten days on a diet of vegetables, and, through the wisdom God gave them, came to stand before King Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel (Prophet)
[People]Daniel was a man of Judah who, according to the Bible, served in the royal court during the Babylonian exile. He is the central figure of the Book of Daniel and is widely known for interpreting dreams and for his deliverance from the lions' den.
Daniel 5
[Bible]Daniel 5 tells how Belshazzar, king of Babylon, held a feast using vessels from the temple in Jerusalem, saw handwriting appear on the wall, and heard Daniel interpret it; that same night the kingdom fell.
Plain of Dura
[Bible]The plain of Dura is the place where Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, set up a golden image and commanded all his officials to bow down to it. It is mentioned only once in the Bible, in Daniel 3:1.
Ashpenaz
[People]Ashpenaz is the chief of the eunuchs under Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in Daniel 1. He was responsible for educating and overseeing Daniel and his three friends, who had been carried off from Judah, at the royal court.
Dura
[Bible]Dura was a plain in the province of Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image and commanded all his officials to bow down to it (Daniel 3:1).
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
[Bible]Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin is the Aramaic inscription that the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the palace wall during the feast of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, in Daniel 5. Daniel interpreted it as God's declaration of judgment: the kingdom had come to an end and would be divided.
Belshazzar's Feast
[Bible]Belshazzar's Feast is the event recorded in Daniel 5, in which handwriting appeared on the wall during a banquet at which Belshazzar, king of Babylon, drank from the vessels of the Temple in Jerusalem and praised idols. The king was slain that same night.
Nabonidus
[People]Nabonidus was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (reigned 556–539 BC). Although he is not named in the Bible, he is known as the father of Belshazzar, who appears in the Book of Daniel.
Eunuch
[Bible]A eunuch was an official who served the king and the royal household closely in ancient palaces; in many cases he was a castrated man. The Hebrew and Greek terms appear across both Testaments, and the Korean Revised Version renders the same original term with several different words depending on context.
Evil-merodach
[People]Evil-merodach was the king of Babylon who succeeded Nebuchadnezzar. The closing portions of 2 Kings and Jeremiah record that in the year he came to the throne he released Jehoiachin, the captive king of Judah, from prison and treated him generously.