Morpheus aids Neo in successfully entering the door to the Source before returning to the Nebuchadnezzar.

In 605 BC, his son Nebuchadnezzar fought Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt and the remnants of the Assyrian army at the Battle of Carchemish, shortly before Nabopolassar died.

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

His older brother, Antimenidas, appears to have served as a mercenary in the army of Nebuchadnezzar II and probably took part in the conquest of Judaea and the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC.

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

In 601 BC Nebuchadnezzar II was involved in a major, but inconclusive battle, against the Egyptians.

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

In 586 BCE King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon conquered Judah.

* 588 BC – Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign.

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.

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

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

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.

In fact, Necho's war with Nebuchadnezzar II most probably prevented the canal's continuation.

In the 6th century BC there was new construction in Ur under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.

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.

* Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon

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.

* 562 BC — Amel-Marduk succeeds Nebuchadnezzar II as king of Babylon.

* 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.

* 605 BC — Nebuchadnezzar II succeeds his father Nabopolassar as King of Babylon.

An engraving on an eye stone of onyx with an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II

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.

Chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah refers to what Jewish exegesis of the prophetic vision of Isaiah 14: 12-15 identifies as King Nebuchadnezzar II ; the Hebrew word says " Helel ben Shaḥar " (" the shining one, son of the morning ").

* Nebuchadnezzar II is a playable character in Civilization V.

* Morpheus-Captain of the Nebuchadnezzar, he aids Neo at various points throughout the game ( Laurence Fishburne is the only actor from the film series to reprise his character's voice in the game ).

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.

: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it ; and they built forts against it round about.

The second chapter of Daniel relates an account attributed to the second year of his reign, in which Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a huge image made of various materials ( gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay ).

* Saddam Hussein considered himself to be the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar and had the inscription " To King Nebuchadnezzar in the reign of Saddam Hussein " inscribed on bricks inserted into the walls of the ancient city of Babylon during a reconstruction project he initiated ; he named one of his Republican Guards divisions after Nebuchadnezzar.

Berossus described the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, the king he credits with the construction of the Hanging Gardens.

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.

In the eleventh year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar succeeded in capturing Jerusalem.

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.

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army.

Nebuchadnezzar dispatched Holofernes to take vengeance on the nations of the west that had withheld their assistance to his reign.

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.

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.

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.

In Daniel chapter 3, Nebuchadnezzar erects a large idol made of gold for worship during a public ceremony on the plain of Dura.

The river flowed east of its current position during the time of Nebuchadnezzar II, and little is known about the western portion of Babylon.

Stephanie Dalley posits that during the intervening centuries the two sites became confused, and the extensive gardens at Sennacherib's palace were attributed to Nebuchadnezzar II's Babylon.

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 Jewish Encyclopedia, holding to a later date of the book of Daniel, supposes that " during the long period of oral tradition the unimportant kings of Babylon might easily have been forgotten, and the last king, who was vanquished by Cyrus, would have been taken as the successor of the well-known Nebuchadnezzar ".

* Kid's Story-set during the six month gap between the events of the first and second films, after Neo joins the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar in freeing other humans from the Matrix.

The idea originates in Jewish eschatology during the Hellenistic era, with the " four empires " in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar as narrated in the Book of Daniel, chapter 2.

His treatment of the Jews during their exile in Babylon after Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem is reported in the Bible.

According to the Bible, three times during the 6th century BCE, Nebuchadnezzar exiled the Jews ( Hebrews ) of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon.