Nebuchadnezzar (I)

I. NEBUCHADNEZZAR, Nebuchadrezzar, Nabuchodonosor, &c. King of Assyria, otherwise called Saosduchin, began to reign at Nineveh in the Year of the World 3335, before Christ 665, before the vulgar Æra 669. In the twelfth Year of his Reign, and in the Year of the World 3347, this Prince in a set Battle overcame Arphaxad King of the Medes in the Plains of Ragau. Then Nebuchadnezzar sent to all the Inhabitants of Cilicia, Damascus, Mount Libanus, Phœnicia, Judea, and all the other Nations adjoining to them, as far as Ethiopia, to require of them to acknowledge him as King, and to submit to his Empire. But all these People sent back his Ambassadors with Disdain, and slighted his Menaces. Nebuchadnezzar enraged at this, swore by his Throne that he would Judith ii. 1, 2, &c.be revenged for this Affront¹; and in the thirteenth Year of his Reign he assembled the chief Officers of his Army, and acquainted them with the Resolution he had taken, of bringing the whole Earth into Subjection to his Government. He appointed Holofernes his Generalissimo, gave him his Instructions, put large Sums of Money into his Hands, and sent him away at the Head of a powerful Army, to reduce all those Nations that would not acknowledge his Empire. The Success of this War has already been mentioned under the Title Holofernes. Nebuchadnezzar, otherwise Saosduchin, had Saracus or Chynaladan for his Successor, in the Year of the World 3356, before Christ 644, before the vulgar Æra 648.

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