The_Prayer_of_Azariah
Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children
Passage that appears after Daniel 3:23 in the Septuagint, but not in the Masoretic
The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, abbreviated Pr Azar,[1] is a passage which appears after Daniel 3:23 in some translations of the Bible, including the ancient Greek Septuagint translation.
The passage is accepted by some Christian denominations as canonical.
The passage includes three main components. The first is the penitential prayer of Daniel's friend Azariah (called Abednego in Babylonian, according to Daniel 1:6–7) while the three youths were in the fiery furnace. The second component is a brief account of a radiant figure who met them in the furnace yet who was unburned. The third component is the hymn of praise they sang when they realized their deliverance. The hymn includes the refrain, "Praise and exalt Him above all forever...", repeated many times, each naming a feature of the world.