Nebuchadnezzar
Also known as: Nebuchadrezzar, King of Babylon
King · King of Babylon
Key Events
- 1Conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple (586 BCE)
- 2Took Jewish captives to Babylon including Daniel
- 3Witnessed men unharmed in fiery furnace
- 4Humbled by God — lived as beast for seven years
- 5Restored and praised God: "those that walk in pride he is able to abase"
What Scripture Says (57 verses)
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 Kings · Chapter 24
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2 Kings · Chapter 24
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
2 Kings · Chapter 24
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 host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2 Kings · Chapter 25
And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
2 Kings · Chapter 25
And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
2 Kings · Chapter 25
And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
1 Chronicles · Chapter 6
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles · Chapter 36
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
2 Chronicles · Chapter 36
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles · Chapter 36
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Church Tradition
Death
Death not specifically recorded in scripture
Location: Babylon
Source: Daniel 4:36-37 records restoration; death outside scripture
Details
- Verses
- 57
- Category
- king
Appears In
Key Verses
Daniel 1:1-2
Daniel 2:46-47
Daniel 3:28-29
Daniel 4:34-37
2 Kings 25:1-10