Daniel 3:17

If it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us.

The king had said: "Ye shall be cast into the burning, fiery furnace, and who is that God who will be able to deliver you out of my hand?" This is their answer: "Jehovah is able, if he thinks best to deliver us from the furnace." We do not take this to mean that they expected God to deliver them, but it is. declaration, in answer to the king, that God could deliver them. Into the hands of such. mighty God they were willing to commit their cause. If he chose to have them die they were content; if he chose to deliver them, it would be well. The answer shows their entire confidence in God.