And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Parallel translations
- WEB and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.
- BSB And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
- NKJV and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.”
- NASB But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be thrown into the middle of a furnace of blazing fire.”
- NLT Anyone who refuses to obey will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”
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Quick answer
Anyone refusing to bow is to be thrown at once into a blazing furnace. The decree backs idolatry with the threat of death.
Overview
The furnace makes the cost of faithfulness brutally clear: bow or burn. Babylon offers no middle ground, exposing the tyranny that lies behind enforced worship. This deadly ultimatum sets up the great test of whether the Hebrews will fear God or man, a choice every persecuted believer eventually faces.
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Cross-references · 18
- Matt 13:42And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
- Matt 13:50And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
- Jer 29:22And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
- Dan 3:15Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Dan 3:11And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
- Rev 9:2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
- Rev 14:11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
- Ezek 22:18–22Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
- Rev 13:15–17And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
- Dan 6:7All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
- Gen 19:28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
- Dan 2:12–13For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- Isa 44:17And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
- Exod 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Dan 3:21Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Dan 2:5The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
- Matt 4:9And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
- Mark 6:27And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
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