24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar suddenly jumped up in amazement. "Didn’t we throw three men tied up into the furnace?" he asked his advisors. "Yes, that’s right, Your Majesty," they replied. 25 "Look!" he cried out. "How is it that I can see four men, not tied up, walking around in the fire and not being burned? And the fourth one looks like a god!"3:25. "A god." This expression on the lips of a pagan king surely referred to his own religious beliefs. The actual term is "son of god," however in Hebrew "son of" often simply refers to the actual person, not the son (see for example 2:25 which in fact refers to the "sons of the captives," etc.). However, in verse 28 Nebuchadnezzar identifies him as an angel.
27 The provincial governors, prefects, local governors, and the king’s advisors gathered around them and saw that the fire had not harmed them. Their hair wasn’t singed, their clothes weren’t scorched—there wasn’t even the smell of smoke!