28Then 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.
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For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. …
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. …
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. …
Thou 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;
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-30)The strict observations that were made, super visum corporis—on inspecting their bodies , by the princes and governors, and all the great men who were present upon this public occasion, and who could not be supposed partial in favour of the confessors, contributed much to the clearing of this miracle and the magnifying of the power and grace of God in it. That indeed a notable miracle has been don…
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