Nebuchadnezzar II
King of Babylon
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The king who razed Jerusalem in 587 BC and carried its people into captivity — the defining trauma of the Hebrew Bible — while transforming Babylon into the ancient world's most lavish capital. Nebuchadnezzar II ruled for 43 years and left twin legacies: catastrophe for Judah, splendor for Mesopotamia.
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Possibly named after his grandfather or after one of Babylon's legendary warrior-kings, Nebuchadnezzar had already made his name during his father Nabopolassar's reign, leading armies in the takedown of Assyria. At Carchemish in 605 BC he crushed Pharaoh Necho II's Egyptian forces, securing Babylon's dominance over the ancient Near East — then inherited the throne when Nabopolassar died shortly after. His early years as king were unsteady: a failed invasion of Egypt emboldened rebellions across the empire. He put down insurrections in the east, then turned west to the Levant in the 580s BC. In…
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