Shadrach: Aku's command, the Chaldean name given to Hananiah, one of the Hebrew
youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon
(Daniel 1:6,7)
(Daniel 3:12-30) He 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.
