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.

Ramses II, Nebuchadnezzar, Esarhaddon, Marcus Aurelius, and even armies from modern-day France and Great Britain have engaged in this practice.

Nebuchadnezzar ( or Nebuchadrezzar ) was the name of several kings of Babylonia.

There were several rulers over Babylon between the death of Nebuchadnezzar and the rulership of Nabonidus and Belshazzar.

After several days aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, Neo is taken to meet the Oracle, who has the power of foresight within the simulated world.

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.

Under the direction of Nebuchadnezzar II, Babylonian armies exiled three thousand Jews from Judah, deposing King Jehoiachin in 597 BCE.

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.

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.

For the unnamed " king of Babylon " a wide range of identifications have been proposed. They include a Babylonian ruler of the prophet Isaiah's own time the later Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, or Nabonidus, and the Assyrian kings Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and Sennacherib, Herbert Wolf held that the " king of Babylon " was not a specific ruler but a generic representation of the whole line of rulers.

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

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

The Kingdom of Judah came to an end in 587 BC when Babylonian forces under Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem, and removed most of its population to their own lands.

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 ).

The most notable of all the revolts is the Babylonian revolt which was led by Nebuchadnezzar III.

* 605 BC — Battle of Carchemish: Crown Prince Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon defeats the army of Necho II of Egypt, securing the Babylonian conquest of Assyria.

But Ussher's last extra-biblical coordinate was the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, and beyond this point he had to rely on other considerations.

According to Babylonian tradition, towards the end of his life, Nebuchadnezzar prophesied the impending ruin of the Chaldean Empire ( Berossus and Abydenus in Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica, 9. 41 ).

Its tentative attribution to the 6th century BC Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II by the assyriologist Dalley or to pre-Hellenistic Egypt has been refuted on the grounds of " the total lack of any literary and archaeological evidence for the existence of the water-screw before ca.

Nebuchadnezzar I of the Babylonian empire plundered Susa around fifty years later.

In 588 BCE Zedekiah rebelled against Babylonian rule, and Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem ( in Tevet 10 of that year ); in the summer of 586 BCE the walls of Jerusalem were penetrated, the city conquered, the ( first ) Holy Temple destroyed, and the people of Judah exiled to Babylonia.

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.

Tudor Parfitt, Professor of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, has theorised that it was the Ark of the Covenant, lost from Jerusalem after the destruction by the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BC.

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 ).

The chronology of the three Babylonian kings is given in the Talmud ( Megillah 11a-b ) as follows: Nebuchadnezzar reigned forty-five years, Evil-merodach twenty-three, and Belshazzar was monarch of Babylonia for two years, being killed at the beginning of the third year on the fatal night of the fall of Babylon ( Meg.

The city achieved pre-eminence when Nebuchadnezzar II ( 605-562 BC ) extended the Babylonian Empire over most of Western Asia.

The Jerusalem Chronicle, part of the Babylonian Chronicles, now housed in the British Museum, claim that Nebuchadnezzar " crossed the river to go against the Egyptian army which lay in Karchemiš.

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

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.

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.

In 586 BCE King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon conquered Judah.

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.

He ascended the throne in 597 BCE, after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia ( to whom the Kingdom of Judah was then subject ) exiled King Jeconiah ( Zedekiah's nephew ) to Babylonia.

The Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II exiled to Babylon Joconiah and Jeconiah's uncle King Zedekiah the last king of Judah and killed Zedekiah there.

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.

Zedekiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II in 597 BC at the age of twenty-one.

Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah.

The deportation and exile of an unknown number of Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar II, starting with the first deportation in 597 BCE and continuing after the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple in 587 BCE, resulted in dramatic changes to Jewish culture and religion.

This is the period that corresponds to the biblical Kings Hezekiah through Josiah and the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II.

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.

The destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, seemed to end the Biblical plan for Israel, destroyed the First Temple, killed many people, and exiled the survivors.

The town later reverted to Judaean control, only to fall to Nebuchadnezzar in his campaign against Judah in 586 BC.

* 599 – 597 BC: Siege of Jerusalem ( 597 BC ) – Nebuchadnezzar II crushed a rebellion in the Kingdom of Judah and other cities in the Levant which had been sparked by the Neo-Babylonians failed invasion of Egypt in 601.

* 587 – 6 BC: Siege of Jerusalem ( 587 BC ) – Nebuchadnezzar II fought Pharaoh Apries's attempt to invade Judah.