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Not even the smell of fire
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the furnace with no hair singed and no smell of fire; the king had seen a fourth man walking with them. Daniel 3:24–27
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Nebuchadnezzar had the three men thrown into the furnace heated seven times hotter. He saw four men walking unbound in the fire, "and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods." Daniel 3:19–25
When they came out, "the fire had no power on their bodies... the hair of their head wasn't singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them." Daniel 3:26–27
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Daniel 3:24–27 WEB
24Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?” They answered the king, “True, O king.” 25He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.” 26Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire. 27The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed. The smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
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Three friends were thrown into a very hot fire because they would not bow to a statue. They walked out without even smelling of smoke!