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Topic:
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Of The Bible -- Shadrach
The name "Shadrach" means "command of Aku" in
Babylonian, Aku being the name of the Babylonian god of the moon. The
name also means "royal, or the great scribe."
The name Shadrack was the Chaldean name given to Hananiah, one of the
Hebrew youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon (Dan. 1:6,
7; 3:12-30). Shadrack and his two companions refused to bow down before
the image which Nebuchadnezzar had set up on the plains of Dura. Their
conduct filled the king with the greatest fury, and he commanded them to
be cast into the burning fiery furnace. Here, amid the fiery flames,
they were miraculously preserved from harm. Over them the fire had no
power, "neither was a hair of their head singed, neither had the
smell of fire passed on them." Thus Nebuchadnezzar learned the
greatness of the God of Israel.
After their deliverance from the furnace, we hear no more of
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, except in (Hebrews 11:33,34) but there
are repeated allusions to them in the later apocryphal books, and the
martyrs of the Maccabaean period seem to have been much encouraged by
their example.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible
Dictionaries
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