"But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you wish [that] I should release the King of the Jews?"

And Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, that you serve not my gods, and worship not the golden image which I have set up?

Now then, if you are ready, whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made, [fine;] but if you will not worship, in the same hour you shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

And by reason of the majesty which He gave to him, all nations, tribes, [and] languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he exalted; and whomever he wished, he abased.