Daniel 3:16
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Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, answered, and said to king Nabuchodonosor: We have no occasion to answer thee concerning this matter.

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Context
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Accused
15Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand? 16Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, answered, and said to king Nabuchodonosor: We have no occasion to answer thee concerning this matter.17For behold our God, whom we worship, is able to save us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us out of thy hands, O king.…
Cross References
Daniel 1:7
And the master of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Baltassar: to Ananias, Sidrach: to Misael, Misach: and to Azarias, Abdenago.

Daniel 3:12
Now there are certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the works of the province of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men, O king, have slighted thy decree: they worship not thy gods, nor do they adore the golden statue which thou hast set up.

Daniel 3:28
For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.

Lexicon
Shadrach,
שַׁדְרַ֤ךְ (šaḏ·raḵ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7715: Shadrach -- Babylonian name of one of Daniel's companions

Meshach,
מֵישַׁךְ֙ (mê·šaḵ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4336: Meshach -- a Babylonian name

and Abednego
נְג֔וֹ (nə·ḡōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5665: Abed-nego -- 'servant of Nebo', Babylonian name of one of Daniel's companions

replied
עֲנ֗וֹ (‘ă·nōw)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6032: To answer

to the king,
לְמַלְכָּ֑א (lə·mal·kā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's Hebrew 4430: A king

“O Nebuchadnezzar,
נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּ֔ר (nə·ḇū·ḵaḏ·neṣ·ṣar)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5020: Nebuchadnezzar -- a Babylonian king

we
אֲנַ֧חְנָה (’ă·naḥ·nāh)
Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 586: We

have
לָֽא־ (lā-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3809: Not, no

no need
חַשְׁחִ֨ין (ḥaš·ḥîn)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2818: To be necessary, to need

to answer you
לַהֲתָבוּתָֽךְ׃ (la·hă·ṯā·ḇū·ṯāḵ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8421: To return

in
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5922: Above, over, upon, against

this
דְּנָ֛ה (də·nāh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1836: This

matter.
פִּתְגָ֖ם (piṯ·ḡām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6600: A word, answer, letter, decree


Additional Translations
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer you in this matter.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.

Then answered Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago and said to king Nabuchodonosor, We have no need to answer thee concerning this matter.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, 'We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee.
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