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Prior to Nebuchadnezzar, God had never seen fit to remove the [[David|Davidic]] dynasty completely from the throne of Judah--though the [[Northern Kingdom]] of "Israel" had gone through several different dynasties before [[Shalmaneser V]] of [[Assyria]] finally conquered [[Samaria]] and essentially replaced its population. But Nebuchadnezzar was the first king essentially to replace a Judaean dynasty as its governors--and ironically, Gentile though he was, was the first among them to "measure up" to God's desires.

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~~== Disputed chronology of Nebuchadnezzar's early career ==~~

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The dating of the events in Nebuchadnezzar's career up to and a year after the [[Fall of Jerusalem]] is in sharp dispute. This dispute arises from the same source as does the ongoing [[Biblical chronology dispute]] between the opposing followers of [[James Ussher]] and [[Edwin R. Thiele]]. The probable source of the confusion concerns exactly what one means by the phrase "first year of Nebuchadnezzar." By tradition, the "first year" is the year that a king was granted the office of ''viceroy''. But if, as seems likely, Thiele interpreted "first year of Nebuchadnezzar" as the year that Nebuchadnezzar reigned ''alone'', then he could be forgiven for surmising that a key intersection of Nebuchadnezzar's career with the history of the Southern Kingdom occurred in 605 BC, which was in fact the year that Nabopolassar died.

== Nebuchadnezzar in modern culture ==

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