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Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah in the fiery furnace

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True span4004 BC – AD 100
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Daniel 3:1–30Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

HananiahMishaelAzariahNebuchadnezzarBabylon ›
Names and references: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · coordinates: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0

How we know the date

None of the public-domain chronologies consulted (ISBE, Easton's, Ussher) gives this event a year; it is placed here by its order in the narrative.

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
Placed by sequence — no public-domain source dates this. The event keeps its place in the sequence of the narrative, and no year is shown for it.

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