Song of Three 1:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now the king’s servants who threw them in kept stoking the furnace with naphtha, pitch, tinder, and brushwood.

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Common English Bible

Now the king’s aides, who had thrown them into the furnace, were constantly feeding the fire with petroleum, tar, kindling, and dry sticks.

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

After the king's servants threw Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah into the furnace, the servants kept tossing in oil, tar, dried flax plants, and small pieces of firewood.

Good News Bible (Anglicised)

The king's servants who had thrown the three men into the furnace kept the fire hot by feeding it with oil, tar, flax, and brushwood.

King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

And the king's servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And the king's servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the furnace hot with naphtha, pitch, tow, and small wood;

Song of Three 1:23 Cross References