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NASB | Daniel 1:7 Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name Belteshazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abed-nego. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Daniel 1:7 The commander of the officials gave them [Babylonian] names: Daniel he named Belteshazzar, Hananiah he named Shadrach, Mishael he named Meshach, and Azariah he named Abed-nego. |
Bible Question:
Most people do not know. The names of Hananiah, Mishael and Meshach changed in the rest of the book of Daniel, save 1:19 and Daniel's is not. Why wouldn't Daniel want to write their Jewish names, instead of their Babylonian names? Why didn't Daniel use his new name very much? |
Bible Answer: Steve actually it was Daniel Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah not Meshach. I suspect their heathen names were required and Daniel got into the habit of calling them by them, However he never thought of himself as Belteshzzar but rather as Daniel and therefore when he wrote he called himself by that name. While yours is a good question, I have one I find far more disturbing, why doesn't the church call the three Hebrew children by their Hebrew names. Ask any child in Sunday school and they can tell you story a Shadrack, Meshach and Abed-Nego. But ask them who was Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah and they are lost. |
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