2022
Saved from the Fire
November 2022

“Saved from the Fire,” Friend, November 2022, 12–14

Scripture Stories

Saved from the Fire

Illustration of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego sitting together talking.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were good friends. They helped each other choose the right.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

brother and sister walking toward temple

Illustrations by Apryl Stott