NEBUZAR-ADAN, or Nabuzardan, General of Nebuchadnezzar’s Armies, and the chief Officer of his Houshold. He managed the Siege of Jerusalem, and made himself Master of the City, while Nebuchadnezzar was at Riblah in Syria1. Nebuzar-adan sent Zedekiah to him thither, with the chief of the Captives; and having plunder’d the City and the Temple, he set them on fire, and reduced them to Ashes. He took away all the consecrated Vessels of the Temple, and broke in pieces the brazen Sea, the two great Pillars, and all the other Vessels that could not be carried Jer. xxxix. 11.—14. xl. 1.—6.away whole. Afterwards he gathered together all the Captives at Ramah, and there finding Jeremiah and Baruch, he suffer’d them to go where they pleased, according to the King’s Order. The other Captives he carried to Babylon, leaving Gedaliah in the Country, there to govern the miserable Remains of Judah. Some have thought that Nebuzar-adan gave Jeremiah the Ark of the Covenant, the golden Candlestick, the Tables of Incense, and of the Shew-bread, and that this Prophet hid them in a Cave of Mount Nebo, in the Land of Moab. But in this Opinion there is nothing but what is very uncertain. See our Dissertation at the Beginning of the first Book of the Maccabees, wherein we enquire whether or no the Ark of the Covenant was in the second Temple.
Four Years after Jerusalem was taken2, while Nebuchadnezzar was engaged at the Siege of Tyre, Nebuzar-adan brought to Babylon seven hundred and forty five Captives more, so that the Country was left in a manner desolate. He afterwards marched against the Ammonites, took their capital City, laid waste their Country, and brought their King and Princes Captives to Babylon. From this Time the Scripture makes no farther mention of Nebuzar-adan.
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