23 others in the registry answer to the name Azariah. Every Azariah in the Bible
person · also Abednego
Azariah
עֲזַרְיָה
Azariah, also known as Abednego, was one of Daniel's companions who survived the fiery furnace (Dan.1.6, 7, 11, 19; 2:17, 49; 3).
- verses
- 18
- first named
- Daniel 1:6
- last named
- Daniel 3:12
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Daniel's compatriot
Description
Who was Azariah?
Azariah, also known by his Babylonian name Abednego, was one of the young Jewish nobles taken into captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, along with Daniel, Hananiah (Shadrach), and Mishael (Meshach). These young men were chosen to serve in the king's court and were given new names. Azariah, along with his companions, remained faithful to God and refused to defile himself with the king's food and wine. God granted them wisdom and understanding, and they excelled in their training. Later, when King Nebuchadnezzar erected a golden statue and demanded that all bow down and worship it, Azariah and his friends refused, remaining loyal to the one true God. As a result, they were thrown into a fiery furnace, but God protected them, and they emerged unharmed. This miraculous event led Nebuchadnezzar to acknowledge the power of the God of Israel. Throughout the book of Daniel, Azariah (Abednego) and his companions serve as examples of unwavering faith and courage in the face of adversity.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Hananiah5 events
- Mishael5 events
- Daniel4 events
- Ashpenaz2 events
- Nebuchadnezzar1 event
- Shadrach Meshach Abednego1 event
- Melzar1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Azariah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
18 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Daniel (18).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 18, across 1 book. The name is written 20 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Daniel 1Azariah joins Daniel, Hananiah, and Mishael in the ten-day test and enters the king’s service.
- Daniel 2Azariah joins Daniel in pleading for mercy concerning the mystery and is later appointed to manage Babylon.
- Daniel 3Abednego refused to worship the statue and walked unharmed through the blazing furnace.
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