The brief resurgence of a " Babylonian " identity in the 7th to 6th centuries BC was accompanied by a number of important cultural developments.

The passage includes the penitential prayer of Azariah ( Abednego in Babylonian ; see ) while the three youths were in the fiery furnace ; a brief account of a figure who met them in the furnace and was unburned ( an angel, or interpreted by Christians as a prefigurement or theophany of Jesus Christ, in the same vein as Melchisedek ); and the hymn of praise they sang ( with the refrain, " Praise and exalt Him above all forever ...", repeated many times, each naming a feature of the world ) when they realized they were delivered.

A brief mention of this giant, " Ohia ", is found in the Babylonian Talmud ( Nidah, Ch 9 ), where it is said " סיחון ועוג אחי הוו דאמר מר סיחון ועוג בני אחיה בר שמחזאי הוו " (" Sihon and Og the Book of Numbers were brothers, as they were the sons of Ohia the son of Samhazai of the leaders of the fallen angels in the Book of Enoch ").

Because of their size and need to migrate, gray whales have rarely been held in captivity, and then only for brief periods of time.

After a relatively brief halt due to opposition from peoples who had filled the vacuum during the Jewish captivity ( Ezra 4 ), work resumed c. 521 BCE under the Persian King Darius ( Ezra 5 ) and was completed during the sixth year of his reign ( c. 518 / 517 BCE ), with the temple dedication taking place the following year.

Fiddler crabs live rather brief lives of no more than two years ( up to three years in captivity ).

After an aircraft crash occasioning a brief period in Lithuanian captivity, he went back to England to report, this time to the Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill.

These species, like most tarantulas when held in captivity, often become cannibalistic, so individuals must be kept singly, though brief captive introductions of a mate for breeding purposes rarely result in a dead spider, so long as they are separated once they have finished.

He was certainly present at the Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119, in which Roger was defeated and killed by Ilghazi, and Walter was probably taken into captivity for a brief time in Aleppo.

It is later revealed that, during her brief period of captivity, Hardware gave Kimiyo a new costume which can collect and assimilate light energy.

Separated from his comrades, Rowe spent 62 months in captivity with only brief encounters with fellow American POWs.

After a brief period at liberty, Morcar was again imprisoned by William Rufus and died in captivity.

Love initially began several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babydoll, and then having a brief stint as a singer in Faith No More after " demanding " them to let her be in their band.

There are brief but vivid descriptions of the South as it began and grew, with backgrounds of the main characters: the stylish and highbrow French, the gentlemanly English, the forced-to-flee and looked-down-upon Irish.

Iceman also began a brief relationship with the Xavier School's nurse, Annie, however she ended up leaving him for Havok, who had just left Polaris at the altar.

He then worked for Curtis-Wright for a brief period, then went to study at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and began to work in advertising.

From 10 July traffic began increasing again, and after a brief shutdown on 15 July, it was reaching about 15 % of its pre-17 February levels up to 22 August, the day Tripoli fell to the rebels.

" To make clear my exposition in writing this brief commentary on painting ," Alberti began his treatise, Della Pittura ( On Painting ), " I will take first from the mathematicians those things with which my subject is concerned.

At the age of 19, a brief contact with the Muslim holy woman Hazrat Babajan began his seven-year process of spiritual transformation.

In 1924, after the Rome correspondent of a British paper described the traditional Italian hand-game of morra, which has some similarities to rock-paper-scissors, a brief correspondence began on the subject.

The Second Italo – Abyssinian War was a brief colonial war that began in October 1935 and ended in May 1936.

After the brief rule of Mao's chosen successor Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping emerged as China's paramount leader, and began to shift the country towards market economics and away from ideologically driven policies.

Most oxygen technicians were trained on the job, although brief training programs began to appear in the late 1940s and 1950s.

After a brief and unsuccessful collaboration effort with McDonnell Douglas in 1981, Fokker began an ambitious project to develop two new aircraft concurrently.

Following Cambyses ' brief rule, Darius the Great began a major building program in Susa and Persepolis.

By 1869, Leonowens was in New York, where she opened a school for girls for a brief period on Staten Island, and began contributing travel articles to a Boston journal, Atlantic Monthly, including " The Favorite of the Harem ", reviewed by the New York Times as " an Eastern love story, having apparently a strong basis of truth ".

In 1927 Garbo was introduced to stage and screen actress Lilyan Tashman and strong evidence indicates that the two began an affair ; silent film star Louise Brooks stated that she and Garbo had a brief liaison the following year.

In a brief interview with Alex Jones in September 2006, Ventura began expressing doubts regarding the events behind the September 11 attacks.

Shortly after, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones used a sitar in " Paint It, Black " and a brief fad began for using the instrument in pop songs.

Because of the very quiet opening pages of the ballet score, the composer added a brief " Fanfare pour précéder La Peri " which gave the typically noisy audiences of the day time to settle in their seats before the work proper began.

For a brief time, during the late 1960s, Clarabelle began dating Goofy, perhaps in an attempt to give Goofy a girlfriend.

For a brief time, during the late 1960s, Clarabelle Cow began dating Goofy, perhaps in an attempt to give Goofy a girlfriend.

Following a brief exchange of artillery fire, the battle began with a Royalist cavalry charge led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

From 1928 Book's II and III slowly began to emerge in transition, with a brief excerpt of II. 2 (" The Triangle ") published in February 1928, and Book III's four chapters between March 1928 and November 1929.

Cort trained at Gold's Gym for a brief period, taking lessons from Schwarzenegger, but ultimately felt that he was wrong for the project ; Cort and the producers amicably parted ways, and the documentary team began to focus more intently on the established bodybuilders at Gold's.

After a brief career in law, Buchan simultaneously began writing and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in Southern Africa, and eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in First World War.

In 1986, Hershey's began a brief foray into cough drops when it acquired the Luden's cough drops brand.

Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage.

After a brief period the influence of the Romans started to emerge, and they protected the Oracle from a dangerous barbarian invasion in 109 BC and 105 BC.

Following the Gutian period, there is a brief Sumerian renaissance in the 21st century, cut short in the 20th century BC by Amorite invasions, a Semitic people from the north east Levant who founded Babylon as an independent state in 1894 BC.

This was only a brief respite because shortly afterwards Babylon was besieged which led to its fall in 689 BC.

After a brief period under the rule of Epirus, Hiero II seized power in 275 BC.

Linear-Elamite was used for a very brief period of time during the last quarter of the third millennium BC.

After a brief period under Persian rule under Darius Hystaspes, the state regained its independence under King Alexander I ( 495 – 450 BC ).

Andriscus ' brief success at reestablishing the monarchy in 149 BC was quickly followed by his defeat the following year and the establishment of direct Roman rule and the organization of Macedon as the Roman province of Macedonia.

The 790s BC witnessed the surging power of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, albeit a brief moment of weakness following in subsequent decades, the further decadence of Egypt, and the beginnings of civilization with the rise of the city-states in Ancient Greece.

But that recovery proved brief, for in 198 BC Antiochus defeated Scopas at the Battle of Panium, near the sources of the Jordan, a battle which marks the end of Ptolemaic rule in Judea.

Sallust's Jugurthine War is a brief monograph recording the war against Jugurtha in Numidia from c. 112 BC to 105 BC.

Despite the brief descriptions of him, Enoch is one of the main two focal points for much of the 1st millennium BC Jewish mysticism, notably in the Book of Enoch.

After a brief spell under Gaulish rule, it was taken over by Romans in the 3rd century BC.

For a brief period around 10 BC Tasciovanus, a king of the Catuvellauni already issuing coins from Verlamion, also issued coins from Camulodunon, suggesting that the Trinovantes ' capital had been conquered by the Catuvellauni, but he was soon forced to withdraw, perhaps as a result of Roman pressure – his later coins are no longer marked with the Latin REX ( for " king "), but with the Brythonic RICON – and Addedomarus was restored.

With the collapse of Akkad under Sargon's great great-grandson, Shar-kali-sharri, Elam declared independence under the last Avan king, Kutik-Inshushinak ( c. 2240 – 2220 BC ), and threw off the Akkadian language, promoting in its place the brief Linear Elamite script.

During a brief respite provided by the civil war between Ashurbanipal and his own brother Shamash-shum-ukin whom their father Esarhaddon had installed as the vassal king of Babylon, the Elamites too indulged in fighting among themselves, so weakening the Elamite kingdom that in 646 BC Ashurbanipal devastated Susiana with ease, and sacked Susa.

The suicide of emperor Nero, in 68, was followed by a brief period of civil war, the first Roman civil war since Mark Antony's death in 30 BC.

This development was interrupted around 499 BC by the Persian Wars, during which the islands were captured by the Persians for a brief period.

Yan experienced a brief period of independence after the collapse of the Qin dynasty, but was eventually absorbed by the victorious Western Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – 9 AD ).

The historical background of this portion of the History is the invasion of the island of Melos by Athens in 416 BC during a brief lull in the Peloponnesian War.