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

* Nebuchadnezzar ( Blake ), a 1795 print by William Blake

* 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.

The tree is Nebuchadnezzar himself, who for seven years will lose his mind and live like a wild beast.

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.

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.

There are still others who maintain that after Nebuchadnezzar had carried the beautiful youths of Judah to Babylon, he had them executed and their bodies mutilated, because their beauty had entranced the Babylonian women, and that it was these youths whom Ezekiel called back to life.

Nebuchadnezzar, who had made a drinking-cup from the skull of a murdered Jew, was greatly astonished when, at the moment that the three men were cast into the furnace, the bodies of the dead boys moved, and, striking him in the face, cried out: " The companion of these three men revives the dead!

* Nebuchadnezzar I, who ruled the Babylonian Empire in the 12th century BC

Some classical-era Rabbis, attacking Solomon's moral character, have claimed instead that the child was an ancestor of Nebuchadnezzar II, who destroyed Solomon's temple some 300 years later.

Immediately after Darius seized Persia, Babylonia briefly recovered its independence under a native ruler, Nidinta-Bel, who took the name of Nebuchadnezzar III, and reigned from October 522 BC to August 520 BC, when Darius took the city by storm.

Nebuchadnezzar II (; ; ; Ancient Greek: Ναβουχοδονόσωρ ; Arabic: ن ِ ب ُ وخ َ ذن ِ ص َّ ر ; c 634 – 562 BCE ) was king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BCE – 562 BCE.

Nebuchadnezzar was the oldest son and successor of Nabopolassar, who delivered Babylon from its dependence on Assyria and laid Nineveh in ruins.

Nebuchadnezzar faces off against Zedekiah, the last king of Kingdom of Judah | Judah, who holds a plan of Jerusalem, in a Baroque sculpture | Baroque era depiction in Zwiefalten Abbey, Germany.

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 gardens were attributed to the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled between 605 and 562 BC.

In some versions of the apocryphal or deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, Ahasuerus is given as the name of an associate of Nebuchadnezzar, who together with him, destroyed Nineveh just before Tobit's death.

He was installed as king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, after a siege of Jerusalem to succeed his nephew, Jeconiah, who was overthrown as king after a reign of only three months and ten days.

Nebuchadrezzar II | Nebuchadnezzar faces off against Zedekiah, who holds a plan of Jerusalem, in this Baroque sculpture | Baroque-era depiction in Zwiefalten Abbey in Germany

Pashur, the son of Malchiah, was another priest, who was sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord regarding the impending attack of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon ( Jeremiah 21: 1 ).

The Pentecostal minister Finis Dake interprets the Bible verses Esther 2: 5 – 6 (" 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 ") to mean that Mordecai himself was exiled by Nebuchadnezzar.