Prayer of Azariah

AZARIAH, PRAYER OF ăz’ ə rī’ ə (προσευχὴ ̓Αζαρίου). A Gr. addition to the [[Book of Daniel]], which, together with its companion piece the [[Song of the Three Children]], was inserted between 3:23 and 3:24 in the Gr. VS of Daniel. In the Vul. the Prayer thus occurs in 3:24ff; in the Apocrypha, being conjoined with the Song of the Three Children, it forms a separate entity. Among the various additions to Daniel, only this material inserted in ch. 3 is truly supplemental, in the sense of being related to the actual story of the book.