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ABED-NEGO

According to many, the nego is an intentional corruption of Nebo, the name of a Babylonian god, arising from the desire of the Hebrew scribes to avoid the giving of a heathen name to a hero of their faith. The name, according to this view, would mean "servant of Nebo." Inasmuch as `abhedh is a translation of the Babylonian `arad, it seems ore probable that nego also must be a translation of some Babylonian word. The goddess Ishtar is by the Babylonians called "the morning star" and "the perfect light" (nigittu gitmaltu).

The morning star is called by the Arameans nogah, "the shining one," a word derived from the root negah, the equivalent of the Babylonian nagu, "to shine." Abed-nego, according to this interpretation, would be the translation of Arad-Ishtar, a not uncommon name among the Assyrians and Babylonians. Canon Johns gives this as the name of more than thirty Assyrians, who are mentioned on the tablets cited by him in Vol. III of his great work entitled Assyrian Deeds and Documents. It means "servant of Ishtar."

Abed-nego was one of the three companions of Daniel, and was the name imposed upon the Hebrew Azariah by Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 1:7). Having refused, along with his friends, to eat the provisions of the king's table, he was fed and flourished upon pulse and water. Having successfully passed his examinations and escaped the death with which the wise men of Babylon were threatened, he was appointed at the request of Daniel along with his companions over the affairs of the province of Babylon (Daniel 2).

Having refused to bow down to the image which Nebuehadnezzar had set up, he was cast into the burning fiery furnace, and after his triumphant delivery he was caused by the king to prosper in the province of Babylon (Daniel 3).

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego - A Story of Bravery and Faith

I'll refer the them as Shad, Mesh and Abed. They were three guys who didn't 'go with the flow' when faced with a big decision but their very decision put them in a place where they had to believe or die.

"King Nebuchadnezzar (I'll refer to him simply as the King) made an image of gold...and set it up in the province of Babylon. He then summoned the satraps (protector of the province), prefects (magisterial title), governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up. So the people (mentioned above) assembled for the dedication of the image that the King had set up, and they stood before it."

Then the herald loudly proclaimed, "This is what you are commanded to do, O peoples, nations and men of every language. As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that the King has set up. Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace."

The next paragraph describes how everyone in the crowd did fall down and worship the image of gold the King had set up. Then came the astrologers who cooked up a scheme to implicate Shad, Mesh and Abed who had not done as the King's command had said. The astrologers story went as follows:

"There are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon - Shad, Mesh and Abed - who pay no attention to you, O King. They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up."

Furious with rage, the King summoned Shad, Mesh and Abed. So these men were brought before the King, and the King said to them, "Is it true, Shad, Mesh and Abed, that you do not serve the gods or worship the image of gold I have set up?"

The King gave Shad, Mesh and Abed an ultimatum, "If you do not worship it (the image of gold), you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?"

Now Shad, Mesh and Abed are faced with a decision that could ultimately take their lives if they don't obey the King. Their response shows that they were determined to live according to their convictions no matter what.

"Shad, Mesh and Abed replied to the King, "O King, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O King. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O King, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up."

The King became furious and he no longer favored them because of their decision to not obey him. He called for the furnace to be heated seven times hotter that ever before. He called his strongest soldiers to tie up Shad, Mesh and Abed and throw them into the furnace. The fire was so hot the soldiers actually died while throwing the three guys into the furnace.

The King was in for a surprise. "The King leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisors, "Weren't there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?"

They replied, "Certainly, O King."

He said, "Look, I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods."

The King then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, "Shad, Mesh and Abed, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!"

Shad. Mesh and Abed came out and those people who had condemned the three originally crowded around. They saw that the fire had not even harmed the three men, no hair singed, their robes not scorched, and no smell of fire on them at all.

Then the King said, "Praise be to the God of Shad, Mesh and Abed, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the King's command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God...for no other god can save in this way."

Then the King promoted Shad, Mesh and Abed in the province of Babylon.*

Abednego Greene Malcolm

Abednego Greene Malcolm

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Abednego, Malcolm Green, Malcolm Green and Malcolm also known as the Greenbury was born some records, September 18, 1821 in Frankfurt, near the state of Kentucky. The Green, Nathaniel orphan when he was nine years old, a former combatants in the War of 1812 Revolutionary War I Veteran, and grandson of war famous revolutionary.

By profession, and graduated as a doctor Malcolm Green, Edinburgh, Scotland, from the Faculty of Medicine. He traveled widely throughout Europe, Asia and parts of the Islands of Fiji and the time of Commodore Perry to Japan with him for refusing an offer.

June 9, 1846 Mexican War, he was in Louisville, Kentucky Service Regiment 1 (Marshall) on the Kentucky horsemen who worked with him. Patterson camp, originally submitted on October 31 in the state of Texas, and his unit in December 1846 in Monterrey, Mexico is. During his Mexican War saw action in the battle of water Nacoa in the Battle of Buena Vista was with General Taylor.

He said that the battle where he received a wound caused by the Mexican cavalry took the mark. Later, with the Scot year was the fall of Mexico City in the fall of the castle town was the second man on the wall.

Service from June 1, 1847 in New Orleans after that came out of the war. Chronic dysentery during the war, he did not receive the contract.

In 1848, he went to California where he earned a fortune, fires, floods and Indian raids of the reasons for fighting the Indians lost all the next state of Texas, and spent two years of the border.

June 15, 1861, and the United States at the opening meeting between the war, and a battalion recruited 1, (f McNairy), Tennessee Cavalry serving in the rank of captain. Kentucky and Tennessee to work in your campaign includes the involvement of federal troops and Georgia before falling into the hands of the last train out of Atlanta, is.

Between States and the defeat of South Korea after the war, rather than endure the harassment and humiliation, and said: "Emaar", Mexico, where the Confederate soldiers, other like-minded, he traveled to help plant a colony of Confederation.

A farm in Mexico after its colony, and Atlanta, Georgia, where he plans to ex-Confederate soldiers and their families to organize the colony returned. Determined in the spring of 1867, three families of the colony on his way to New Orleans where the Spanish Honduras (Republic of Honduras) paved the way for this book.

Despite the difficulties they face, near Fort Puerto Cortes Omoa, access, and Malcolm's main inland areas in terms of Comayagua Honduras, Honduras, and said he had met with representatives of the Republic and President of the Republic submitted a letter to Medina on refugees South led Honduran immigrant settlement and citizenship for reasons of them, some of the ideas and the provision of services in return for concessions are:

"Gentlemen: The undersigned emphasize provision of respect for your consideration that ten days after April 10, and I seventieth souls, and their beautiful with the immigrants arrived in the city of Omoa these people, and men. It can be said of women and children who are the best of South America to the United States, resulting in to thousands of people may consist of, and we want our homeland.

That our country and freedom seems to be lost.

What make our country before it was destroyed by our enemies.

Our desire to become citizens of the Republic at the same time, it can be a part of our people, to demand security with our lives, and protect you from foreign invasion, and our country new to do our duty as a whole.

We come among you that unfortunately we have great, because the latter, many of us very poor condition, and will move forward without opening speech, then the following privileges and asked to donate to our cause as it should. ... With the highest consideration, and I, gentlemen, obedient servant. "(Signed) G. Malcolm Comayagua, Honduras, California, May 3, 1867.

Colonization of them to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and President of the Republic in honor of the "Medina" shortly after naming the colony, to do so under the control of the Council decided to put their local government, you must create a colony in order to complete the interest or the interests of any of the questions that are likely to affect care to avoid the need to assemble a public meeting held after the election of delegates:

Chairman Malcolm as its officer, Pirkle LG, HH Briers, George WaltersJ. H. Wade, and b Goldsmith, Secretary.

Malcolm was leading after the Immigration Minister, appointed by the Government of the Republic of Honduras to facilitate the transition to a new colony of our visitors.

About 1870, Malcolm remove the key to the state of Texas, where he was 11 in 1906 December Malakoff, Henderson County, Texas, he remained until his death. Chairman Malcolm married twice took the first roar of Nannie Susan Francis, Thomas and Elizabeth (strong) San Jacinto Lee County, Texas, the daughter of the second. Many of the descendants of these marriages spring Mon Burial of President Malcolm Texas currently Oak Memorial Cemetery in Malakoff, Henderson County.