Nebuchadrezzar is supposed to be some kind of strange mental patient. In this disease called lycanthropy, the person suddenly feels and acts like a wild animal.
King of Babylon (600-560 BC) In the sixth century BC, the ancient Babylonian Empire, which lived through periods of majesty, after periods of depression and conquest, spread again and became an aggressive state, especially under the great king Nebusadrezzar II. This interesting ruler was both a conqueror and an architect. He organized an expedition to Egypt and defeated the pharaohs. The Hebrew Kingdom conquered Judah and sacked Jerusalem in 586. He sent almost all the Hebrews to Babylon as slaves. He captured the great city of Tir after besieging it. Thus, he became the greatest ruler of his time.
But he didn't just fight. New Babylon was to become a beautiful and glorious city. For this purpose, he rebuilt the city. It was surrounded by walls that were kilometers long. He built famous hanging gardens in the city. These would later be referred to as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Life story
He is the king of Babylon, who ruled between 605-562 BC, destroyed the State of Judah, and destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon.
In Hebrew, his name is reported as Nebuchadrezzar (Nebuchadnezzar) and Nebuchadnezzar (Nebuchadnezzar). In Islamic sources, it is reported that the Arabs called him Buhtnassar and the Iranians called him Buht-i Nassar. Buhtunasr was the son of Nabopolassar, the founder of the New Babylonian Kingdom and the first king of the Chaldean dynasty.
He served as a commander in the army during his father's reign. Upon the advance of Pharaoh II Nechao towards the Euphrates, he was brought to the head of the army by his sick father, and he defeated the Egyptian army in Carchemish and forced them to retreat (605 BC). Pharaoh II. Bukhtunnasr, who followed Nechao to the Egyptian border, also took Syria, Palestine and the Kingdom of Judah under his rule, but upon the death of his father, he returned to Babylon and took the throne. B.C. In 599, he again made a campaign to Syria to gain control of the nomadic tribes who sided with Egypt and plundered the Arab lands.
After the death of Prophet Solomon, the Bani Israel community was divided into two, the state of Israel from ten tribes and the state of Judah from two tribes. The Assyrians destroyed the state of Israel, which was founded by the gathering of ten tribes, in 721 BC. After the King of Judah, Jehoiakim did not pay taxes despite the advice of the prophet Jeremiah, the Babylonian king Bukhtunnasr BC. He marched on Jerusalem at the end of 598 BC and after a few weeks of siege. He took the city on March 16, 597, and the state of Judah was thus destroyed. His son, Jehoiakim, who succeeded Jehoiakim, who died before the fall of Jerusalem, remained on the throne for only three months. After the city was taken over by the Babylonian army, he was taken to Babylon with his family and notables. Bukhtunnasser made Jehoiachin's uncle Mattaniah king, changing his name to Zedekiah, and also plundered the treasures of the king's house and temple.
Zedekiah, who initially obeyed the Babylonian kingdom, took sides with Egypt and refused to pay taxes to Babylon by making an agreement with the tribes of Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Tyr (Tyre) who controlled eastern Jordan in the ninth year of his reign. Thereupon, the Babylonian army marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city. Egypt did not come to help and after a siege that lasted for more than a year, Bukhtunnasr took the city (586 BC). The King of Judah, Zedekiah, was caught trying to escape, his family was murdered in front of his eyes, and he was blinded and taken to Babylon as a prisoner with most of the Jews, in addition, the city of Jerusalem was completely burned, the Temple of Solomon was destroyed, and the Jews were exiled from Jerusalem.
Nebuchadnezzar built Babylon and made it the center of his country so that his wife Amytis would not be homesick, in Nineveh, the capital city of Babylon, located on the edge of the Tigris river, close to Mosul, which is located within the borders of Iraq today, Babylon, which consists of artificial mountains and large terraces where water will flow, He built the hanging gardens of He left no one to oppose him in the east and west of the region, and later became proud and declared his deity. One night, Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream that a very large tree had branches and rose to the sky, and animals were grazing on its branches under the shadow of birds. However, he sees that a loud voice from the sky orders the tree to be cut down and that the human heart of the tree will be replaced by an animal heart, that it will remain unrooted, and that it be surrounded by iron bars. When the dream interpreters said that this tree was him, that he would lose his kingdom and that it would be given again, he finally lost his mind and started to think that he was an ox, wandering in the forests for seven years and grazing with wild animals. During this time, the Babylonian kingdom was ruled by his wife. In some sources, it is narrated that one year before his death, his mind was restored to him and thus he died.
Buhtünnasr plundered the city of Jerusalem many times and destroyed the Torah and Psalms. Thus, as time passed, many parts of the Torah were forgotten. Much later, the memorable ones began to be written. B.C. Ezra (Üzeyr), who is estimated to have lived around 500 B.C., collected these written Torahs and was involved in the second construction of the Temple. According to today's Jewish understanding, the Torah, which had been completely lost until then, was dictated by Lord Yehuda by revealing it to Ezra again.