The king's commandment was urgent; which made them the more hasty and precipitate in their execution, and took less care for themselves against the violence of the flame. The fire slew those men; a signal hand of God upon such as execute wicked commands, who, though mighty men, had no might to escape the flame at the mouth of the furnace, when the other escaped in the midst of it.
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Daniel 3:22
22 Therefore because the king's commandmenth was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.