Nebuchadnezzar
Ancient Mesopotamian ruler
Nebuchadnezzar was a Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the First Temple in 586 BCE, exiling the Jews to Babylon.
The name appears frequently in biblical contexts and has become shorthand for a powerful but tyrannical ruler.
A Nebuchadnezzar is also an enormous wine bottle holding fifteen liters—twenty times a standard bottle.
Tigris-Euphrates river region
- EuphratesMajor Iraqi river
- TigrisWestern Asian river
- zigguratStepped ancient temple mound
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
Marduk · Chaldean · Babylonian Empire · Akkadian · city walls · throne room · Fertile Crescent
Hebrew prophet's name
- fiery furnaceExtremely hot enclosed fire
- ShadrachHebrew exile who survived flames
- MeshachHebrew captive in Babylon
- AbednegoHebrew who survived flames
Book of Daniel · dreams · prophecy · Jerusalem · exile · Judah · interpretation · statue
Sovereign's time in power
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- successionFollowing in order
- royal inscriptionsMonarchs' official carved records
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
empire · monarch · sovereignty · Belshazzar · crown prince · palace · throne
Patriarch and namesake tribe
- military campaignCoordinated wartime offensive
- siege warfareSurrounding fortifications to force capitulation
- battering ramHeavy beam for breaching
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
tribute · vassal · Egypt · expansion · subjugation · captives · plunder · Near East
Study of physical remnants
- excavationAct of unearthing
- cuneiform tabletsWedge-marked ancient slabs
- historical recordsPreserved accounts of the past
- ancient historyStudy of earliest civilizations
Mesopotamia
Tigris-Euphrates river region
cuneiform · Marduk · Chaldean · Babylonian Empire · Akkadian · city walls · throne room · Fertile Crescent
Daniel
Hebrew prophet's name
- fiery furnaceExtremely hot enclosed fire
- ShadrachHebrew exile who survived flames
- MeshachHebrew captive in Babylon
Abednego · Book of Daniel · dreams · prophecy · Jerusalem · exile · Judah · interpretation · statue · madness
reign
Sovereign's time in power
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- successionFollowing in order
- royal inscriptionsMonarchs' official carved records
administration · empire · monarch · sovereignty · Belshazzar · crown prince · palace · throne
Judah
Patriarch and namesake tribe
- military campaignCoordinated wartime offensive
- siege warfareSurrounding fortifications to force capitulation
- battering ramHeavy beam for breaching
deportation · tribute · vassal · Egypt · expansion · subjugation · captives · plunder · Near East
archaeology
Study of physical remnants
- excavationAct of unearthing
- cuneiform tabletsWedge-marked ancient slabs
- historical recordsPreserved accounts of the past
ancient history · William Blake · literature · museum artifacts
- Mesopotamian KingsHammurabi, Sargon
- Biblical FiguresJesus, Adam, Eve, Moses, Noah
- Fictional Vehiclesstarship, mothership, Battlestar Galactica, Millennium Falcon, Borg cube
- Ancient MesopotamiaBabylon, Assyria, cuneiform, Nineveh, Sumer
- MesopotamiaBabylon, Sumer, Tigris, Mesopotamia, Euphrates
- Ancient FiguresGilgamesh, Hammurabi, Ramesses II, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun