Daniel 3:28 (BSB)

Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

From Daniel 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 3:28

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 3:28: This, indeed, is no common confession, but the event proved how suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar was acted on by impulse, without having, the living root of the fear of God in his heart. And I repeat this again, to shew that repentance does not consist in one or two works, but in perseverance, as Paul says, — “If ye live in the Spirit, walk also in...
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 3:28-30: The strict observations that were made, super visum corporis - on inspecting their bodies, by the princes and governors, and all the great men who were present upon this public occasion, and who could not be supposed partial in favour of the confessors, contributed much to the clearing of this miracle and the magnifying of the power and grace of God in it.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 3:28: Therefore I make a decree,.... Or, a "decree is made by me" (w); which is as follows: that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; anything indecent, blasphemous, or by way of contempt: he does not give orders that their God should be worshipped or signify that he would worship him himself, and quit his...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 3:28: In giving some better traits in Nebuchadnezzar's character, Daniel agrees with Jer 39:11; Jer 42:12. changed the king's word--have made the king's attempt to coerce into obedience vain. Have set aside his word (so "alter . . . word," Ezr 6:11) from regard to God. Nebuchadnezzar now admits that God's law should be obeyed, rather than his (Act 5:29). yielded . . . bodies--namely, to the fire. not serve--by sacrificing.