5:5-28) Ancient historical records indicate what followed. Nabonidus was not there to see the ominous writing on the plaster wall: “MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN.” ( Dan. That fateful night in the city of Babylon Belshazzar held a banquet with a thousand of his grandees. (Gregorian calendar), when Babylon fell before the invading armies of the Medes, Persians and Elamites under the command of Cyrus the Great. The latter’s son, Belshazzar, was ruling with his father as coregent up until the night of October 5/6, 539 B.C.E. 4:30) In such glory it continued as the capital of the third world power under the successive reigns of Nebuchadnezzar’s son Evil-merodach (Amel-Marduk), his son-in-law Neriglissar and Neriglissar’s son Labashi-Marduk, and finally with Nebuchadnezzar’s son-in-law Nabonidus on the throne. His son Nebuchadnezzar II, who completed the restoration and brought the city to its greatest glory, boasted, “Is not this Babylon the Great, that I myself have built?” ( Dan. Then with the decline of the second world empire, the Chaldean Nabopolassar founded a new dynasty in Babylon about 645 B.C.E. Under the control of the Assyrian World Power, Babylon figured in various struggles and revolts. Hammurabi enlarged and strengthened the city and made it the capital of the Babylonian Empire under Semitic rule. 11:9) Later generations of rebuilders came and went. Construction of this city, however, suddenly came to a halt when confusion in communications occurred. Nimrod, who lived in the latter part of the third millennium B.C.E., founded Babylon as the capital of man’s first political empire. This city of renown was located along the Euphrates River on the Plains of Shinar, later called Babylonia, approximately 540 miles (869 kilometers) E of Jerusalem and some fifty miles (80 kilometers) S of modern Baghdad.-See BABYLONIA SHINAR.
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