The entire crowd is kneeling before the golden statue. Yet some of the people who are supposed to be watching for this, notice that three men remain standing. They refuse to worship anything or anyone other than the Lord. We have already seen in Daniel 2:2 that the Chaldeans are a certain group of men in the king’s court and we see now in Daniel 3:12 that they know very well who the three men are who do not bow before the image.
8 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and maliciously accused the Jews.