Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego been independent. It forms a pair with the story of Daniel in the lions' den, both making the point that the God of the Jews will deliver those who are faithful to him. King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image in the plain of Dura (a word meaning simply "plain") and commanded that all his officials bow down before it. All who failed to do so would be thrown into a blazing furnace. Certain officials informed the king that the three Jewish youths Hanania, Mishael, and Azaria, who bore the Babylonian names Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and whom the king
Shadrach Fox East India Company. He was then recruited to go to Russia to enter the service of Peter the Great. He travelled by way of Archangel, but died in the course of his first winter in Russia, leaving a destitute widow in England and several children,of whom his son Mesech served as a soldier and later sought to recover his father's property (but there was none). Shadrach Fox Shadrach Fox was the ironmaster who preceded Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale. Shadrach was probably the son of Captain Thomas Fox, who appears in the accounts of Philip Foley in 1669 as buying tough