“Saved from the Fire,” Friend, November 2022, 12–14
Scripture Stories
Saved from the Fire
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Illustration of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego sitting together talking.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were good friends. They helped each other choose the right.
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King Nebuchadnezzar II demands that everybody bow down and worship a graven image.
One day the king told everyone to pray to a golden statue. If they didn’t, he would throw them into a fire.
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego refuse to bow down and worship the graven image.
Everyone else prayed to the statue. But the three friends prayed only to God.
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego are thrown into the fiery furnace.
The king was angry. He threw Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego into the fire.
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Jehovah appears to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the fiery furnace and protects them from the consuming flames.
But the fire didn’t burn them! A heavenly being stood with them and kept them safe.
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A young girl declines to look at something on a smartphone
I can choose the right, even when it’s hard. Jesus will help me and be with me!
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brother and sister walking toward temple
Illustrations by Apryl Stott