XV. AZARIAH, otherwise called Abednego, one of the three Israelites cast into the fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, for refusing to adore the Statue which he Dan. iii. 19.had erected. In the year of the world 3444, before J.C. 556, before the vulgar Æra 560. took this name, when he ingaged to conduct 1 Macc. v. 60.Tobias to Rages. Tob. vi. 6.
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