Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Bible Quiz

Answer key for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Bible Quiz

1. Q1: What were their Hebrew names? Answer: Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah. Daniel 1:6-7 (KJV) — Their Hebrew names were Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; Daniel's was Belteshazzar. Reference: Daniel 1:6 (KJV).
2. Q2: What were their Babylonian names? Answer: Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego. Daniel 1:7 (KJV) — The prince of the eunuchs gave them new names: Hananiah became Shadrach, Mishael became Meshach, and Azariah became Abednego. Reference: Daniel 1:7 (KJV).
3. Q3: What musical instruments signaled the people to worship the image? Answer: Cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer. Daniel 3:5 (KJV) — 'That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick...' Reference: Daniel 3:5 (KJV).
4. Q4: What was the punishment for refusing to worship the image? Answer: The fiery furnace heated seven times more. Daniel 3:19 (KJV) — Nebuchadnezzar 'commanded to heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.' Reference: Daniel 3:19 (KJV).
5. Q5: Who reported Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to the king? Answer: Certain Chaldeans. Daniel 3:8 (KJV) — 'Then came near certain Chaldeans, and accused the Jews.' Reference: Daniel 3:8 (KJV).
6. Q6: What did they tell the king about their God? Answer: He will deliver us, but if not, we will not worship. Daniel 3:17-18 (KJV) — 'Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us... But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods.' Reference: Daniel 3:17 (KJV).
7. Q7: Who did Nebuchadnezzar see walking in the fire with them? Answer: The Son of God. Daniel 3:25 (KJV) — Nebuchadnezzar said, 'I see four men loose... and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.' Reference: Daniel 3:25 (KJV).
8. Q8: What happened to their clothes and hair in the fire? Answer: Not a hair was singed, nor their coats changed. Daniel 3:27 (KJV) — 'Upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed.' Reference: Daniel 3:27 (KJV).
9. Q9: What decree did Nebuchadnezzar make after the miracle? Answer: That no one speak against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Daniel 3:29 (KJV) — 'I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces.' Reference: Daniel 3:29 (KJV).
10. Q10: What province did they govern? Answer: The province of Babylon. Daniel 2:49 (KJV) — 'Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon.' Reference: Daniel 2:49 (KJV).