He said, “I have been zealous-zealous for YHWH, the God of Armies. The children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left. They are seeking to take away my life.”
Daniel 3:18 - Y'all Version Bible But if ʜᴇ does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up! [Job 13:15; Acts 4:19, 20.] American Standard Version (1901) But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Common English Bible But if he doesn’t, know this for certain, Your Majesty: we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you’ve set up.” Catholic Public Domain Version But even if he will not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not worship your gods, nor adore the gold statue, which you have raised up." English Standard Version 2016 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” |
He said, “I have been zealous-zealous for YHWH, the God of Armies. The children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left. They are seeking to take away my life.”
Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”
Even if ʜᴇ will kill me, I will hope in ʜɪᴍ. Surely, I will defend my ways before him.
The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent ʜɪꜱ angel and delivered ʜɪꜱ servants who trusted in ʜɪᴍ, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God.
“‘Y’all must not turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves*. I am YHWH y’all’s God.
Don’t y’all be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, y’all should fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.
But he answered them, “When it is evening, y’all say, ‘It will be fair weather, because the sky is red.’
But Peter and John responded, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to y’all rather than to God, y’all be the judge,
choosing instead to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.
If it seems terrible in your* eyes to worship YHWH, y’all must choose today whom y’all will worship—the gods y’all’s ancestors worshiped beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land y’all dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve YHWH.”
They conquered him through the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life even before death.