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Day 239: Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (2022)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Name Changed in Babylon

Mishael, whose name means who is like god, is changed to mishak. En azariah's name is changed to abenego, meaning servant of nego - one of the false gods of babylon as well. If your name is belt shazar, it means no, you belong to bel youre bell's prince. And tis that sense of like, wow, this this is devastating. This is devastating their being stripped of who they belong to and their being given to these false gods in babylon. Yet this is incredible, an incredible sign of the fact that they refused to belong to babylon, even though they were in exile. They refused to live

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