Abed-nego (Babylonian origin: Servant of thegod Nego, a Babylonian deity)
(Daniel 1:7) 6th century b.c.e.
Abed-nego was the Babylonian name given by the chief of the eunuchs of King Nebuchadnezzar to Azariah, a young boy from a noble Jewish family. Azariah and three other Jewish boys—Daniel, Hananiah, and Mishael—were chosen to receive an education that would allow them to become officials of the king's court. Years later, they were appointed to be in charge of the affairs of the province of Babylon. Some time later, the king set up a golden idol and decreed that everybody in the kingdom should worship it. The king, informed that Azariah, Hananiah, and Mishael refused to worship the golden idol and did not want to serve the Babylonian gods, had them thrown into a burning furnace. The three men were saved by an angel and survived. Nebuchadnezzar was so impressed by their miraculous survival that he blessed God and decreed that, from that moment on, anyone in the Babylonian Empire who would dare speak against God would be cut in pieces and his house would be turned into a dunghill.
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