II. NEBUCHADNEZZAR, otherwise Nabopolassar1, Father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, whose Name is so much celebrated in Scripture. Nabopolassar was a Babylonian, and Saracus King of Assyria gave him the Command of his Army. He made a League with Astyages, otherwise called Abasuerus, who thereupon gave his Daughter Amyitis in Marriage to Nebuchadnezzar Son of Nabopolassar. Therefore Abasuerus and Nabopolassar having joined their Forces, made an Insurrection against Saracus King of Nineveh, besieg’d him in his capital City, took him Prisoner, and upon the Destruction of the Assyrian Monarchy raised up two Kingdoms; that of the Medes possessed by Astyages, or Abasuerus, and that of the Chaldeans, or of Babylon, founded by Nabopolassar, in the Year of the World 3378, before Christ 622, and before the vulgar Æra 626. Nabopolassar died in the Year of the World 3399, before Christ 601, before the vulgar Æra 605; and left the Kingdom of Babylon to his Son Nebuchadnezzar the Great, whom we are going now to mention.
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He is called Nabuchodonosor in the Greek of Tobit, the last Chapter to the End; and Nabopolassar in Alexander Polyhistor quoted in Syncellus. ↩