According to the midrash Canticles Rabbah, it was Ezekiel whom the three pious men, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( also called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Bible ) asked for advice as to whether they should resist Nebuchadnezzar's command and choose death by fire rather than worship his idol.

Nebuchadnezzar's construction activity was not confined to the capital ; he is credited with the restoration of the Lake of Sippar, the opening of a port on the Persian Gulf, and the building of the Mede wall between the Tigris and the Euphrates to protect the country against incursions from the north.

Psychologist Henry Gleitman has claimed that Nebuchadnezzar's insanity was a result of general paresis or paralytic dementia seen in advanced cases of syphilis.

Some scholars think that Nebuchadnezzar's portrayal by Daniel is a mixture of traditions about Nebuchadnezzar — he was indeed the one who conquered Jerusalem — and about Nabonidus ( Nabuna ' id ).

The Bablyonian Chronicles allow the fairly precise dating of the capture of Jehoiachin and the start of Zedekiah's reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor Amel-Marduk ( Evil Merodach ) as 562 / 561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's captivity according to 2 Kings 25: 27.

Judah existed until 586 BC, when it was conquered by the Babylonian Empire under Nebuzar-adan, captain of Nebuchadnezzar's body-guard.

The Babylonian Chronicles allow the fairly precise dating of the capture of Jehoiachin and the start of Zedekiah's reign, and also provide the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor Amel-Marduk ( Evil Merodach ) as 562 / 561 BCE, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's captivity according to 2 Kings 25: 27.

Before Wiseman's publication of the Babylonian Chronicles in 1956, Thiele had determined from Biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem and its king Jeconiah occurred in the spring of 597 BC, whereas Kenneth Strand points out that other scholars, including Albright, more frequently dated the event to 598 BC.

Long before this, scholars had speculated that Nabonidus ' exile in Teima lay behind the story of Nebuchadnezzar's banishment and madness in Daniel chapter four.

There are also a number of differences between The Prayer of Nabonidus and the account of Nebuchadnezzar's madness:

* Nebuchadnezzar's illness occurs in Babylon ; Nabonidus is stricken in Tema.

Based on the view that the Ahasuerus of the Book of Tobit is identical with that of the Book of Esther, some have also identified him as Nebuchadnezzar's ally Cyaxares ( ruled 625 – 585 BCE ).

There is also no mention of Nebuchadnezzar's wife Amyitis ( or any other wives ), although a political marriage to a Median or Persian would not have been unusual.

The stereotypical Arab destruction and the purported sale to a Jew possibly originated as a powerful metaphor for Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the destruction of a great and awesome statue, and would have been understood by any 7th century monk as evidence for the coming apocalypse.

The Austrian archeologists have determined that Nebuchadnezzar's ziggurat encased the ruins of a smaller tower from the second millennium BCE.

An inscribed foundation stone has been recovered, which details Nebuchadnezzar's plan to have the Borsippa ziggurat built on the same design as that at Babylon, of which only the foundation survives.

Before Wiseman's publication, Thiele had determined from the biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem occurred in the spring of 597 BC, while other scholars, including Albright, more frequently dated the event to 598 BC.

Matthias Henze even suggests that the narrative of Nebuchadnezzar's madness draws on the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh.

Egyptian and Babylonian armies fought each other for control of the near east throughout much of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and this encouraged king Zedekiah of Israel to revolt.

Nebuchadnezzar's Dream or The End of a Medieval Catholic Church.

After the defeat of the Cimmerians and Scythians, all of Nebuchadnezzar's expeditions were directed westwards, although the powerful Median empire lay to the north.

Nebuchadnezzar's political marriage to Amytis of Media, the daughter of the Median king, had ensured peace between the two empires.

The prophet Daniel tells him God's interpretation, that it stands for the rise and fall of world powers, starting with Nebuchadnezzar's own as the golden head.

Daniel chapter 4 contains an account of Nebuchadnezzar's dream about an immense tree, which Daniel interprets to mean that Nebuchadnezzar will go insane for seven years because of his pride.

4: 7 ), as well as an account of Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem and looting and destruction of the temple ( Jer.

* " Nebuchadnezzar's Furnace " is a type of daylily.

According to the Hebrew Bible, there were three deportations of Jews to Babylon: the exile of King Jeconiah, his court and many others in Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year ; Jeconiah's successor Zedekiah and the rest of the people in Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year ; and a later deportation in Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year.

Zedekiah languished in the royal dungeon in Babylonia until Nebuchadnezzar's death in 561 BCE.

Meroduch, Nebuchadnezzar's son and successor, freed him ( and his nephew Jeconiah ) on the 27th of Adar, but Zedikiah died that same day.

Matthias Henze suggests that Nebuchadnezzar's madness in the biblical book of Daniel draws on the Epic of Gilgamesh.

The affliction of boils was also visited upon the people of Gath and of Ekron, whither the Ark was successively removed ( 1 Sam.

" The Puritans found meaning in affliction, and they did not yet know why God was showing them disfavor through smallpox.

In this way, Eyre was able to demonstrate substantial historical precedents for individual Christadelphian teachings and practices, and believed that the Christadelphian community was the ' inheritor of a noble tradition, by which elements of the Truth were from century to century hammered out on the anvil of controversy, affliction and even anguish '.

It was written, he tells us, in bitter anguish, " out of much affliction and pressure of heart ... and with streaming eyes " ( 2 Cor 2: 4 ); yet he restrained the expression of his feelings, and wrote with a dignity and holy calm which he thought most calculated to win back his erring children.

Block later wrote that there was " nothing particularly ingenious about the term, which is simply used to represent a national affliction that can hardly be described in any other way.

Several years later he was released, reportedly cured of his mental affliction.

The station dropped the 3GL call sign in favour of 3CAT, an ID that was proposed by the radio station's head of football commentary Ted Whitten ( who at the time was in the early stages of affliction of cancer ).

Only Boomhauer was with Hank, and, unable to persuade the proprietor to ignore Hank's purchase, convinced him to put the tattoo in a less conspicuous place, the back of Hank's head ; Hank had completely forgotten that night, but was reminded of it while undergoing treatment for head lice in the present ( an affliction caused by Bill trying to meet the school district's head lice lady ).

However, the king had recently struggled with an acute affliction of the throat, and it was rumored that his corpse had been discovered with its throat slashed by a dagger.

Possibly through affliction with mandibular prognathism, he was unable to chew.

After seeking medical advice, the family's worst fears were confirmed: Christy was physically handicapped and suffered from an incurable affliction called cerebral palsy.

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

John Hale in A Modest Inquiry described the affliction that the girls suffered by saying they looked as if they " were bitten and pinched by invisible agents ; their arms, necks, and backs turned this way and that way, and returned back again, so as it was impossible for them to do of themselves, and beyond the power of Epileptick fits, or natural disease to effect.

He helped start United Cerebral Palsy after Thomas was found to have the affliction.

Theirs was an especially close relationship and Pollitt found in his mother both a confidante and a model of working-class dignity in the face of affliction.

Static and Batman foil the scheme, however, and later, after having been reunited with her parents in Dakota, Allie was sponsored for a treatment program at a new Bang-Baby clinic established by Batman's alter-ego Bruce Wayne, where she began to make progress in controlling and reversing her " metallic affliction ".

Lately, an ancient affliction that attacks dragons and rendering them mad, the Dracorage, was invoked, causing countless dragons to rampage throughout Faerûn.

When asked about her blindness, Crosby was reported as saying that " had it not been for her affliction she might not have so good an education or have so great an influence, and certainly not so fine a memory ".

William M. Branham, the father of the Pentecostal Latter Rain Movement was said by his followers to be able to discern the health condition of people that attended his services, and in many cases heal them of their affliction.

A scriptural reference to an angel of presence is found in Isaiah 63: 9 — In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them ; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.