Correct! A furnace. The three youths were
among those whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon (Dan. 1:6, 7; 3:12-30).
They had refused to bow down before an image which the monarch had set up on the
plains of Dura. Their conduct angered the king, who subsequently commanded them
to be cast into the burning, fiery furnace. Here, according to the story, they
were miraculously protected from harm. Over them the fire had no power,
"neither was a hair of their head singed."
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