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===of Nabonasar===
 
===of Nabonasar===
"From the reign of Nabonasar only are the Chaldeans (from whom the Greek mathematicians copy) accurately acquainted with the heavenly motions: for Nabonasar collected all the mementos of the kings prior to himself, and destroyed them, that the enumeration of the Chaldean kings might commence with him."
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"From the reign of [[Nabonasar]] only are the [[Chaldeans]] (from whom the [[Greek]] mathematicians copy) accurately acquainted with the heavenly motions: for Nabonasar collected all the mementos of the kings prior to himself, and destroyed them, that the enumeration of the Chaldean kings might commence with him."
    
===of the Destruction of the Jewish Temple===
 
===of the Destruction of the Jewish Temple===
"He ([[Nabopollasar]]) sent his son [[Nabuchodonosor]] with a great army against Egypt, and against Judea, upon his being informed that they had revolted from him; and by that means he subdued them all, and set fire to the temple that was at Jerusalem; and removed our people entirely out of their own country, and transferred them to [[Babylon]], and it happened that our city was desolate during the interval of seventy years, until the days of [[Cyrus II|Cyrus]] king of Persia.  (He then says, that) this Babylonian king conquered [[Egypt]], and [[Syria]], and [[Phoenicia]], and [[Arabia]], and exceeded in his exploits all that he reigned before him in [[Babylon]] and [[Chaldea]].
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"He ([[Nabopollasar]]) sent his son [[Nabuchodonosor]] with a great army against [[Egypt]], and against [[Judea]], upon his being informed that they had revolted from him; and by that means he subdued them all, and set fire to the temple that was at [[Jerusalem]]; and removed our people entirely out of their own country, and transferred them to [[Babylon]], and it happened that our city was desolate during the interval of seventy years, until the days of [[Cyrus II|Cyrus]] king of [[Persia]].  (He then says, that) this [[Babylonian]] king conquered [[Egypt]], and [[Syria]], and [[Phoenicia]], and [[Arabia]], and exceeded in his exploits all that he reigned before him in [[Babylon]] and [[Chaldea]].
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===of Nebuchadnezzr===
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===of Nebuchadnezzar===
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"When [[Nabopollasar]] his ([[Nabuchodonosor|Nabuchodonosor's]]) father, heard that the governor, whom he had set over [[Egypt]], and the parts of [[Coelesyria]] and [[Phoenicia]], had revolted, he was unable to put up with his delinquencies any longer, but committed certain parts of his army to his son [[Nabuchodonosor]], who was then but young, and sent him against the rebel: and [[Nabuchodonosor]] fought with him, and conquered him, and reduced the country again under his dominion.  And it happened that his father, [[Nabopollasar]] fell into a distemper at this time, and died in the city of [[Babylon]], after he had reigned twenty-nine years.
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"After a short time [[Nabuchodonosor]], receiving the intelligence of his father's death, set the affairs of [[Egypt]] and the other countries, in order and committed the the captives he had taken from the Jews, and [[Phoenicians]], and [[Syrians]], and of the nations belonging to [[Egypt]], to some of his friends, that they might conduct that part of the forces that had on heavy armour, with the rest of his baggage, to Babylonia; where, when he was come, he found that affairs had been well conducted by the [[Chaldeans]], and that the principal person among them had preserved the kingdom from him: accordingly he now obtained possession of all his father's dominions.  And he ordered the captives to be distributed in colonies in the most proper places of Babylonia: and adorned the [[Tower of Babel|temple]] of [[Belus (god)|Belus]], and the other temples, in a sumptuous and pious manner, out of the spoils he had taken in this war.  He also rebuilt the old city, and added other to it on the outside, and so far restored Babylon, that none, who should besiege it afterwards, might have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it: and this he did by building three wals about the inner city, and three about the outer.  Some of these walls he built out of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only.  When he had thus admirably fortified the city with walls, and had magnificently adorned the gates, he added also a new palace to those in which his forefathers had dwelt, adjoining them, but exceeding them in height, and in its great splendor.  It would perhaps require too long a narration, if any one were to describe it: however, as prodigiously large and mag
    
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