The name Nebuchadnezzar, or more accurately Nebuchadrezzar (Jer. xxi.

Captain of Nebuchadrezzar's guards in The Master of the Magicians, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward.

BALATSU-USUR, the name given to the captive Jew Daniel in Babylon, meaning "May Bel protect his life!" Prostrate upon his royal face, prostrate before the court, the queen, the peopledown like a pleading conscience or a suppliant faith, Nebuchadrezzar the Great lay in the dust, and worshipped him right royally.

Jeremiah's closing words to them, therefore, are denunciations and predictions that they should suffer even in the land of Egypt, at the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, the same fate that had overtaken their fellow-countrymen at Jerusalem.

Both Jeremiah and Ezekiel (Ezek. 30) predicted that Nebuchadrezzar would invade and conquer Egypt.

The elders of the different families directed the affairs of the community and acted as judges, except in the case of capital offences which were punished in the name of Nebuchadrezzar (Jer. 29 22).

Also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadrezzar took from the temple at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, each to its place, and you shall put them in the house of God.

[Sidenote: Ezra 5:14, 15] Now the gold and silver vessels of the house of God which Nebuchadrezzar took from the temple at Jerusalem and brought to the temple in Babylon, those Cyrus the king took out of the temple in Babylon, and they were delivered to one by the name of Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.

The occasion was the accession of Nebuchadrezzar's son Evil-merodach (Babylonian, Amil-Marduk).

The successors of Nebuchadrezzar proved weak and inefficient.

In Babylonia a native prince rallied his countrymen and assumed the title of Nebuchadrezzar III.

Oriental history is also full of analogies: Nebuchadrezzar, Cyrus, Alexander, and in more recent times Mohammed Ali of Egypt.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. Babylon under Nebuchadrezzar.