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Nebuchadnezzar II, [e] also Nebuchadrezzar II, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir", [8] was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC.
King Nebuchadnezzar (left) watches the three youths and the angelic figure in the furnace (right), while the king's gigantic statue towers behind them (centre). Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego ( Hebrew names Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ) are figures from chapter 3 of the biblical Book of Daniel .
Nebuchadnezzar I [b] (/ ˌ n ɛ b j ʊ k ə d ˈ n ɛ z ər / NEB-yuu-kəd-NEZ-ər; Babylonian: md Nabû-kudurrī-úṣur (AN-AG-ŠA-DU-ŠIŠ) [i 2] or md Nábû-ku-dúr-uṣur, [i 3] meaning "Nabû, protect my eldest son" or "Nabû, protect the border"; reigned c. 1121–1100 BC) was the fourth king of the Second Dynasty of Isin and Fourth Dynasty of Babylon.
Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform: Bēl-šar-uṣur, [1] [2] meaning "Bel, protect the king"; [3] Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר Bēlšaʾṣṣar) was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus (r. 556 – 539 BC), the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Through his mother, he might have been a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar II (r.
Nebuchadnezzar III (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, [4] meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir", [5] Old Persian: Nabukudracara), [1] alternatively spelled Nebuchadrezzar III [6] and also known by his original name Nidintu-Bêl (Old Persian: Naditabaira [1] or Naditabira), [2] [c] was a rebel king of Babylon in late 522 BC who attempted to restore Babylonia as an independent kingdom and ...
In 597 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II laid siege to Jerusalem. [9] Jehoiakim died during the siege and was succeeded by his son Jeconiah at an age of either eight or eighteen. The city fell about three months later, on 2 Adar (March 16) 597 BC. Nebuchadnezzar II pillaged both Jerusalem and the Temple and carted all of his spoils to Babylon.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Daniel was a noble Jewish youth of Jerusalem taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, serving the king and his successors with loyalty and ability until the time of the Persian conqueror Cyrus, all the while remaining true to the God of Israel. [1]
Zedekiah [a] (/ z ɛ d ɪ ˈ k aɪ ə /) was the twentieth and final King of Judah before the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.His birth name was Mattaniah/Mattanyahu (Hebrew: מַתַּנְיָהוּ, Mattanyāhū, "Gift of God"; Greek: Μαθθανίας; Latin: Matthanias).