Nebuchadnezzar ( Blake ) | Nebuchadnezzar, by William BlakeWhile boasting about his achievements, Nebuchadnezzar is humbled by God.

By 572 Nebuchadnezzar was in full control of Mesopotamia, Aramea ( Syria ), Phonecia, Israel, Judah, Philistinia, Samarra, Jordan, northern Arabia and parts of Asia Minor.

* Nebuchadnezzar II ( 634-562 BC ), the Babylonian ruler mentioned in the biblical Book of Daniel

* Nebuchadnezzar III ( Niditu-bel ), who rebelled against Darius I of Persia in 522 BC

* Nebuchadnezzar IV ( Arakha ), who rebelled against Darius I of Persia in 521 BC

* Nebuchadnezzar ( wine ), a bottle that holds 15 litres of wine

* Nebuchadnezzar ( The Matrix ), the name of Morpheus ' vessel in the science fiction films The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded

After the destruction of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar engaged in a thirteen year siege of Tyre ( 585 – 572 BCE ), which ended in a compromise, with the Tyrians accepting Babylonian authority.

The Babylonian Chronicles give 2 Adar ( 16 March ), 597 BC, as the date that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem, thus putting an end to the reign of Jehoaichin.

His original name was Mattanyahu (, Mattanyāhû, " Gift of God "; ; ; traditional English: Mattaniah ), but when Nebuchadnezzar II placed him on the throne as the successor to Jehoiachin, he changed his name to Zedekiah.

Sennacherib speaks of one at Tarbisu to the north of Nineveh, but significantly, although Nebuchadnezzar II ( 606 BC-586 BC ), the great temple-builder of the neo-Babylonian monarchy, alludes to his operations at Meslam in Cuthah, he makes no mention of a sanctuary to Nergal in Babylon.

Darius often accused rebels and opponents of being impostors ( such as Nebuchadnezzar III ), and it could be straining credulity to say that they all were.

Most of them were collected from the surface during Starkey's excavations, but others were found in Level 1 ( Persian and Greek era ), Level 2 ( period preceding Babylonian conquest by Nebuchadnezzar ), and Level 3 ( period preceding Assyrian conquest by Sennacherib ).

For instance, the passage, " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him " ( Amos v. 19 ), the lion is said to represent Nebuchadnezzar, and the bear, equally ferocious if not equally courageous, is Belshazzar.

Zedekiah, who had been placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar ( the Babylonian king ), rebelled, and Nebuchadnezzar, who at the time ( 587 / 586 BCE ) was ruler of a most powerful empire, recaptured the city, killed Zedekiah's descendants in front of him, and plucked out Zedekiah's eyes so that that would be the last thing he ever saw.

According to II Kings (), on the 10th day of the 10th month ( which is Tevet when counted from Nisan, the " first month " according to Exodus ), in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign ( 588 BCE ), Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king, began the siege of Jerusalem.

* Neb ( or Nebuchadnezzar ), a character in the novel Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

* Neb ( or Nebuchadnezzar ), a character in English translations of the novel Mysterious Island by Jules Verne ( in the original French the names are Nab and Nabuchadnasar )

: ( Amēl-Marduk ) ( Evil-Merodach ) ( Awil-Marduk ) ( Amil-Marduk ), ' man of Marduk ' ( died 560 BC ) was the son and successor of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.

), and Nebuchadnezzar was busily turning his city of Babylon into the greatest metropolis the world had yet seen.

Shulgi ( formerly read as Dungi ), King of Ur III, built the temple of Nergal at Cuthah, which fell into ruins, so that Nebuchadnezzar II had to rebuild the " temple of the gods, and placed them in safety in the temple ".

The Bible records that some Jews ( who were exiled by the Babylonians ), returned to their homeland from Babylon, where they had been settled by Nebuchadnezzar, to rebuild the temple following an edict from Cyrus.

* 586 BC – Solomon's Temple is totally destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.

As seen by Nebuchadnezzar, a fourth figure appears in the furnace with the three and God is credited for preserving them from the flames.

Chapters 7-12 contain four visions of Daniel that parallel Nebuchadnezzar ’ s dream in Chapter 2 where the fate of four great empires meet their downfall and are replaced by God ’ s kingdom.

According to the Babylonian Chronicles, published by Donald Wiseman in 1956, it was established that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem the first time on 2 Adar ( 16 March ) 597 BC.

Three Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls fragments known as The Prayer of Nabonidus ( 4QPrNab, sometimes given as 4QOrNab ) seem to parallel the insanity suffered by Nebuchadnezzar as described in Daniel Chapter 4.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

* Vision of the two baskets of figs, illustrating the fate of the captives and of those who were left behind, from the period after the first deportation by Nebuchadnezzar, in 597 ( chapter 24 );

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

Depending on the interpretation of Esther 2: 5 – 6, Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish was carried away from Jerusalem with Jeconiah by Nebuchadnezzar, in 597 BCE.

According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

Nabopolassar was succeeded by Nebuchadnezzar II, who became king after the death of his father in 604 BC.

For example, Eliade says, the portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar as a dragon in Jeremiah 51: 34 is a case in which the Hebrews " interpreted contemporary events by means of the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a hero and a dragon.

This text recounts a prophetic dream by Nebuchadnezzar, in which the previous empires had been Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman ; the last empire, they concluded, would be established by the returning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords to reign with his saints on earth for a thousand years.

Jonah is mentioned twice in Chapter 14 of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, the conclusion of which finds Tobit's son, Tobias, at the extreme age of one hundred and twenty seven years, rejoicing at the news of Nineveh's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus in apparent fulfillment of Jonah's prophecy against the Assyrian capital.

Jewish exegesis of Isaiah 14: 12 – 15 took a more humanistic approach by identifying the king of Babylon as Nebuchadnezzar II.

* Nabucco ( short for Nabucodonosor / Nebuchadnezzar ) an opera by Giuseppe Verdi

However, Nebuchadnezzar failed to extend Babylonian territory further, being defeated by Ashur-resh-ishi I, king of the Assyrians for control of formerly Hittite controlled territories in Aramea ( Syria ).

Nebuchadnezzar was succeeded by his two sons.

Nabopolassar was followed by his son Nebuchadnezzar II, whose reign of 43 years made Babylon once more the mistress of much the civilized world, taking over a fair portion of the former Assyrian Empire once ruled by its Assyrian brethren, the eastern and north eastern portion being taken by the Medes and the far north by the Scythians.