“Then Nebouchodonosor was filled with anger, and the appearance
of his face was distorted against Sedrach, Misah and Abdenago.
And he said that the furnace should be stoked up sevenfold until
it would be heated completely and told men, strong in strength,
after they had bound Sedrach, Misah and Abdenago, to throw them
in the fire… And they were walking around in the middle of the
flames, singing hymns to God and blessing the Lord… But the
angel of the Lord came down into the furnace… and shook the
flame of the fire out of the furnace and made the inside of the
furnace as though a moist breeze were whistling through. And the
fire did not touch them at all and caused them no pain or
distress… And Nebouchodonosor heard them singing hymns and was
astonished. And he rose up in haste and said to his nobles, “Was
it not three men we threw bound into the middle of the
fire?”…”Here I see four men unbound and walking in the middle of
the fire… and the appearance of the fourth is like the son of
God”. (Daniel 3: 19-20;