Your Majesty, we don’t need to defend ourselves to you on this. If it comes to that, the God we serve is able to save us from the furnace and from you. But even if he doesn’t, we will not serve your gods or bow down to your golden statue.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
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Not bowing.
Three friends from Judah, Daniel’s friends. Our names were Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, until the chief official gave us Babylonian ones. We manage the province of Babylon for the king.
JudahFirst seen Daniel 1:6