Nebuchadnezzar II: The Master of Babylon

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Source/Further reading:
Ancient History Encyclopedia biography: www.ancient.eu/Nebuchadnezzar...
Britannica biography: www.britannica.com/biography/...
History of Babylon the city: www.theguardian.com/cities/20...
The Babylonian Captivity: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...
Ishtar Gate: www.ancient.eu/Ishtar_Gate/
Babylon, Jewel of the Ancient World: www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Were the Hanging Gardens really in Babylon? www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
East India House inscription: www.britishmuseum.org/collect...
History of Assyria: www.ancient.eu/article/106/hi...
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    3 жыл бұрын

    Since you like dark crime could you cover the ritual murders of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent, Harold of Gloucester, Robert of Bury, Holy Child of La Guardia, Dominguito del Val and William of Norwich. Thanks. There's lots of revisionists and deniers out there saying it wasn't ritual murder but Professor Ariel Toaff books prove that they were. The Professor received death threats for his books and they were banned because they wanted to cover it up so badly. You seem to like covering the dark crimes of gentiles, why not branch out a bit.

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    3 жыл бұрын

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  • @TheLoxxxton

    @TheLoxxxton

    3 жыл бұрын

    My god man!! Trim that bloody beard you weird time travelling youtube monster. This channel hairy another channel trimmed. I would to the channel that shows how one man can run 8 plus channels and still remain sane

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    @kaiying74

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @blahasdirtysock3657

    3 жыл бұрын

    Simon, the Nebuchadnezzar of KZread!

  • @miasverypretty
    @miasverypretty3 жыл бұрын

    I played his wife in my junior school play. I had one line, 'but I can see three men in the fire'. It was my first speaking role.

  • @jmunt

    @jmunt

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don’t you mean four?

  • @geromelegnome5446

    @geromelegnome5446

    3 жыл бұрын

    And the award for outstanding newcomer in a Jr school play goes to...... ,................ ................ Miss Sally Ann 21 in My husband.. My king!!! 😜

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    @joshuagraham9217

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jmunt she had one job

  • @TheHorseOutside

    @TheHorseOutside

    3 жыл бұрын

    Truly the beginning of a star-studded career!

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    @MasterMalrubius

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m your biggest fan!

  • @zoperxplex
    @zoperxplex3 жыл бұрын

    It looks like Simon is channeling Nebuchadnezzar with that ever expanding beard.

  • @deboralee1623

    @deboralee1623

    3 жыл бұрын

    ya beat me to it.

  • @robertsollory7475

    @robertsollory7475

    3 жыл бұрын

    Challenging...... I would think.

  • @Hudsoncolo

    @Hudsoncolo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Note the Christian cross on nebuchadnezzar’s ear?

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    3 жыл бұрын

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    3 жыл бұрын

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    @TheHornet443 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes I don’t understand what Simon is talking about but I like listening to him

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    @NoWhereButUpEntertainment

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @proffnanners

    3 жыл бұрын

    Radio voice is an understatement.

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    @TheBanjoShowOfficial

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao people have personally told me that too it’s like there’s certain voices people like to hear but they have no clue what they’re talking about

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    @TheHornet44

    3 жыл бұрын

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  • @TheBanjoShowOfficial

    @TheBanjoShowOfficial

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheHornet44 that’s pretty cool, although I don’t play the banjo I just named myself over banjo kazooie from the GameCube game

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    @thepuffin40503 жыл бұрын

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    @sandybarnes887

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you fold 2 pieces of pizza together you have a pizza sandwich

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    @threestepssideways1202

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you put lasagna on top of a pizza, you have constipation.

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    @jeremybrimmer1990

    3 жыл бұрын

    "If"

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    @UmVtCg

    3 жыл бұрын

    A pizza on top of an other pizza is a calzone.

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    @bobbyrobles358

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you stack two salads you have one salad

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    @Nonplussed2 жыл бұрын

    You know the man has a promising career when his name has Chad in it

  • @user-js7wy7cl5e

    @user-js7wy7cl5e

    11 ай бұрын

    Most old mesopotamian kings were chads

  • @haraldselke
    @haraldselke3 жыл бұрын

    I saw the Ishtar Gate (rather the reconstruction in Berlin, of course) for the first time when I was 8 years old and was stunned. To me, this definitely is one of the great wonders of the world.

  • @saxogrammaticus3917
    @saxogrammaticus39172 жыл бұрын

    These you tube channels have much more history than the so called "history" channel....I have learnt more from these channels I love it

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    @davidmitchell1869

    Жыл бұрын

    If you haven't yet check out the Fall of Civilizations Videos and podcasts, they are some of the best I've ever seen.

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    @dalemackenzie2187

    Жыл бұрын

    The "History" channel is more into conspiracy than history.

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions3 жыл бұрын

    Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote: "When the past speaks it always speaks as an oracle: only if you are an architect of the future and know the present will you understand it"

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    @NajwaLaylah

    3 жыл бұрын

    A slight exaggeration.

  • @washubrain

    @washubrain

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds very coherent to me, but is there a man who knows even the present?

  • @oyoyy7008

    @oyoyy7008

    3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine sending plebs to school and giving them Nietzsche to read Funny stuff

  • @whathell6t

    @whathell6t

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@oyoyy7008 Except it does happen. If you see a middle school students reading Nietzsche, Zimmerman, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Voltaire, Thomas Kuhn, Marcus Aurelius, Gabriel García Márquez, Sun Tzu, Thomas Aquinas, Jane Austen, Immanuel Kant, Octavia E. Butler etc; then their teachers are hardcore nerds to the bone.

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    @erikho6936

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@whathell6t I don't even Know 90% of the names you mentioned.

  • @lauraeden6224
    @lauraeden62242 жыл бұрын

    My favorite teacher in junior high school was Mr. Griffith, my ancient history teacher. He would draw cartoons on the blackboard to explain military tactics and how things were built. I have always been interested in the past ( Pompeii being my greatest “enthusiasm” in 3rd grade) but the history of Babylon told by Mr. Griffith was unforgettable! Thanks for reminding me of that✨

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    2 жыл бұрын

    URASMP

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    @leoszilard75423 жыл бұрын

    hanging garden is a pretty good wonder. Increasing population in the ancient era is pretty powerful. 10/10 great play-through

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    @dianelipson54202 жыл бұрын

    If I had to pick a favorite channel of Simon Whistler‘s, it’s probably this one. Biographics should be broadcast too. It belongs on an actually good History channel, if they ever come up with one.

  • @ParagonPKC
    @ParagonPKC3 жыл бұрын

    Hebrew uses active words to describe passive actions. So things like "God sent an evil spirit on Saul" means God didn't intervene when an evil spirit came upon him, he would normally intervene as he anointed Saul, like Judah at this point. God intervenes it says in many other instances. Like how God did with Saul, he let him fall sick and overcome with jealousy, he let and used history's course to exemplify the lessons he was telling them through the prophets.

  • @Hollylivengood
    @Hollylivengood3 жыл бұрын

    King Ballsup. And then he kept calling him that. This is how history is made.

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    @joachimgrossmann2303

    3 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣

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    @linda.m.s722 жыл бұрын

    I really love your use of witty humour throughout your truly interesting presentations.

  • @bruceyung70
    @bruceyung703 жыл бұрын

    I was very fortunate to have toured the Babylon in Iraq back in 2003! I saw Alexander the Great room where he died. South of Iraq is where garden of eden once was now a marsh land.

  • @KabbalahSherry

    @KabbalahSherry

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that's amazing. I hope places like that didn't get destroyed in the war. 😒

  • @bruceyung70

    @bruceyung70

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@KabbalahSherry it wasn’t touched at all!

  • @MegaMrsuperawesome

    @MegaMrsuperawesome

    3 жыл бұрын

    Do you remember where Alexander the great died? Tried googling it could find recent photos. Would be awesome to see

  • @bruceyung70

    @bruceyung70

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MegaMrsuperawesome believe it or not, I have taken picture of it! I was fortunate to have a disposable camera with me and took a picture of what was once a beautiful throne where Alexander took his last breath. I can only describe it to you that it was boxy in shape and raised above the ground by approximately 3-4 feet with its sides of tan colored bricks. The circumference of this boxy throne was around 50x50 ft. Also I use the term “throne” but if you look at it...all you will see is basically dirt and bricks, all in tan color. Despite what was said on the sign, I’m not 100% for sure if it’s an original platform of the original throne because the sand covered-up in layers after more layers through the time measured in thousands of years of its existence. I can only be honest with you and tell you what I was told and saw. I wish I could share the picture that I took with you someday.

  • @Valstrax420

    @Valstrax420

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bruceyung70 Were you in the army or was it tourism?

  • @nicholasnichola4922
    @nicholasnichola49223 жыл бұрын

    I only just finished reading 'The Richest Man in Babylon' by George S Clarson.

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    @shatbad2960

    3 жыл бұрын

    A good read but boils down to: save, don't waste money, invest safely and reinvest.

  • @nicholasnichola4922

    @nicholasnichola4922

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shatbad2960 spot on.

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    @kylarstern7627

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well done! Bit of a dry read that.

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    @Leppardco

    3 жыл бұрын

    Worth the read?

  • @greenkoopa

    @greenkoopa

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's cool, George Carlin is hilarious

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    @nicolewalker83262 жыл бұрын

    I want to thank you so much for all the KZread channels that you have I have learned so much I don't know how you guys do it weekly you guys come up with new things to talk about thank you so much thank you

  • @erimgard3128
    @erimgard31283 жыл бұрын

    "proto-Zeus" I will not stand for this Marduk slander.

  • @paradoxward2533

    @paradoxward2533

    2 жыл бұрын

    Zeus is really the proto-Marduk....,

  • @bradley163
    @bradley1633 жыл бұрын

    "The greater the beard, the greater the man." - Nebuchadnezzar II

  • @AtticusAmericanus

    @AtticusAmericanus

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @kimjong-un8413

    @kimjong-un8413

    3 жыл бұрын

    Disagreed

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    @optimvsprinceps1845

    3 жыл бұрын

    Disagreed

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    @anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AtticusAmericanus agreed

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    @AtticusAmericanus

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@optimvsprinceps1845 I fixed your mistakes, O Best First Senator.

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    @zal040013 жыл бұрын

    I had requested this video, thank you Biographics :)

  • @stevedavenport7281
    @stevedavenport7281 Жыл бұрын

    Great commentary Simon. Thanks for sharing

  • @cassandraralph5906
    @cassandraralph59063 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this most interesting and educational video! I love your wittiness, Simon!

  • @sambeck2510
    @sambeck25103 жыл бұрын

    I guess I'm not mature yet, cause king "Ballsup" made me smirk every time he was mentioned.

  • @deboralee1623

    @deboralee1623

    3 жыл бұрын

    Honore' Balzac. let the smirking commence.

  • @IkedaSerra

    @IkedaSerra

    3 жыл бұрын

    We don't mature. We just get older and learn how to behave in public. In private, we are all just annoying little brats 🤪

  • @Andrew-zq3ip

    @Andrew-zq3ip

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget about his son, Ballsdeep

  • @TheBanjoShowOfficial

    @TheBanjoShowOfficial

    3 жыл бұрын

    He said it so much I actually thought that was his name

  • @bendover7841

    @bendover7841

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Andrew-zq3ip or his daughter Ballstothewall

  • @Caligulashorse1453
    @Caligulashorse14532 жыл бұрын

    Neo Babylonian empire was one of the greatest empires in history

  • @vespurrs
    @vespurrs3 жыл бұрын

    That must have been amazing to see. And you, Simon, are an excellent teacher!

  • @christophermbugua5765
    @christophermbugua57652 жыл бұрын

    Biographics is brilliant. I've learned history across the world easily.

  • @TheGrinningViking
    @TheGrinningViking3 жыл бұрын

    Interesting take on the hanging gardens I heard from an archeologist - there were actually multiple hanging gardens, a kind of ultimate display of wealth in dry middle eastern realms, that definitely inspired the description of the (perhaps fictional, perhaps not) ones in Babylon.

  • @Svensk7119
    @Svensk71192 жыл бұрын

    I don't think it sad. It is awesome that everyone remembers him. He goes into history, into legend, along with Ramses, Tutankhamen(mssp), King David, and Solomon the Wise. If he went mad, I doubt the Babylonian histories would have recorded it, especially if his wits returned.

  • @Owdaks

    @Owdaks

    Жыл бұрын

    Funny how all of those were kinda evil too. Solomon the wise...right, thanks for the freemasons solomon

  • @HelloHello-ws4qf

    @HelloHello-ws4qf

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Owdaks all ancient monarchs were evil if we see them through modern standards

  • @maggiemae7539

    @maggiemae7539

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Owdaks Solomon wrote Proverbs. His repentance

  • @AfroPick82

    @AfroPick82

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Owdaks You simply focusing on the wrong crap or aspect

  • @pillipino3788
    @pillipino37883 жыл бұрын

    One of your best yet Simon and co.!

  • @kellyrobinson6663
    @kellyrobinson66633 жыл бұрын

    I love the ancient bios you guys do, thank you so much ☺️

  • @maev.7293
    @maev.72933 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I learned so much. Before this I just thought a Nebuchadnezzar was a huge bottle of wine.

  • @Chris-hx3om

    @Chris-hx3om

    3 жыл бұрын

    🤦‍♂️ Champagne...

  • @maev.7293

    @maev.7293

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Chris-hx3om I'm not even old enough to drink, soooo SORRY

  • @lydiasamuels5175
    @lydiasamuels51753 жыл бұрын

    That was excellent! Very engaging handful of information that I found very interesting. If you had only been my history teacher in school I might know a few things. LOL keep it up Simon I really enjoyed listening to you.

  • @benjaminkelley5589
    @benjaminkelley55893 жыл бұрын

    Dude, i love your videos! You're the new history channel now.

  • @puntellipuna1061
    @puntellipuna10613 жыл бұрын

    Who remembers how over powered this guy was in Civ 5

  • @ChescoYT

    @ChescoYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    LMAO +1 Only civ i play!

  • @mammuchan8923
    @mammuchan89233 жыл бұрын

    “We’re fairly certain he was born before 630”... and then I thought Simon was going to say AM, and thought well that is accurate AF!

  • @CausticCreations
    @CausticCreations2 жыл бұрын

    birll doode. love that i can put my own soundtrack to these clip mate. top work my doode. just amazing story telling. love it.

  • @HarrietThugman
    @HarrietThugman3 жыл бұрын

    My father is Assyrian. Ashur is a very common name in the Assyrian culture and so is Alexander. Which is what my grandfather was named, and what is what I'm named. The history of the middle east is tremendously deep.

  • @MohammadAli-iz9ld

    @MohammadAli-iz9ld

    3 жыл бұрын

    Most of eastern Christian use the name Alexander alot alnog side with Nicholas

  • @casandracannady5665
    @casandracannady56653 жыл бұрын

    Ha,ha. I loved it when you said " he kicked the bucket ". You are so funny

  • @mirilike3965
    @mirilike39653 жыл бұрын

    I would love to hear about Ashurbanipal's library in Ninive, in Megaprojects.

  • @user-js7wy7cl5e
    @user-js7wy7cl5e11 ай бұрын

    Really beautiful telling for a glorious historical story i didn't skip a single second

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    @austinconway39183 жыл бұрын

    That Square Space jingle slaps. It has for all the dozens of videos I have heard it in.

  • @jasonyin9091
    @jasonyin90913 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see vids on some great asian monarchs such as emperor wu of han, taizong of tang, ashoka the great, akbar the great

  • @cdeschrevel5341

    @cdeschrevel5341

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not Akbar the great, that would be a trap!

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    @danielcannon3511

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cdeschrevel5341 the death star is operational!

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    @NikolasH937

    3 жыл бұрын

    Alderman was a hoax.

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    @rbilleaud

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a big fan of The Wu Tang Clan.

  • @__prometheus__

    @__prometheus__

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rbilleaud lmao

  • @RaPtOr9600
    @RaPtOr96003 жыл бұрын

    Well i will forever know his name, thanks to Matrix.

  • @MasterMalrubius

    @MasterMalrubius

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cool ship Nebbie!

  • @Tarumarugan

    @Tarumarugan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly

  • @fibonaccimachiavelli7001

    @fibonaccimachiavelli7001

    3 жыл бұрын

    Philistine

  • @ImIllITeRaTeAnD

    @ImIllITeRaTeAnD

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mtg here

  • @emanuelmarquez3520

    @emanuelmarquez3520

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @mosheytizchakov3262
    @mosheytizchakov32622 жыл бұрын

    Great video lots of good materiel good stuff I subscribed thanks

  • @hassanbassim4007
    @hassanbassim40073 жыл бұрын

    Nebuchadnezzar II conquests and building projects were influenced by Sargon the Great (Of Akkad) the first emperor. it was something similar to Renaissance European monarchs looking up to the Roman emperors. The Renaissance of Mesopotamian civilization and art started by the Neo-Assyrian Emperors especially Ashurbanipal who uncovered and copied ancient tablets and literature from Sumerian and Akkadian era leading to the creation of Nineveh Library the first of its kind. (He deserves a video too imo).

  • @rickc2102
    @rickc21023 жыл бұрын

    A quick shoutout to the Assyrians out there! I grew up in Turlock and am currently outside Chicago, so yeah, much love! ✌

  • @tarajh
    @tarajh2 жыл бұрын

    I snorted at the "Facebook uncle = epidemiologist" joke. Well done, Morris!

  • @danthegamechanger3855
    @danthegamechanger38553 жыл бұрын

    Great video keep up the good work 👍🏻

  • @kingvogue1397
    @kingvogue13973 жыл бұрын

    You do such an amazing job I love your channel, do you mind doing a biographic of Rameses II

  • @vladimirblitz2867
    @vladimirblitz28673 жыл бұрын

    Nice video, love from Iraq

  • @orionrazilov5994
    @orionrazilov59943 жыл бұрын

    can we get a video about Theodosius I, he was the last person to rule both halves of the Roman Empire before it was divided

  • @agent_meister477
    @agent_meister4773 жыл бұрын

    Wel done Simon, another triumph 👍

  • @stevemasters6608
    @stevemasters66082 жыл бұрын

    Simon, thanks for this bio.

  • @as7river
    @as7river2 жыл бұрын

    "He got warfare". Boy, what an accurate description for Caesar and Hannibal.

  • @Aemilius46

    @Aemilius46

    9 ай бұрын

    Scipio Africanus, Scipio Aemilianus, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, all are way better at Warfare!

  • @hacker4chn841
    @hacker4chn8413 жыл бұрын

    Simon, you HAVE to do Mikhail Kalashnikov - the creator of the AK-47. His story is incredible - dislanded Kulak to greatest weapons designer in history.

  • @mohammadshohel5027
    @mohammadshohel50273 жыл бұрын

    Ty for such a wonderful video ..

  • @onlytwogenders420
    @onlytwogenders4202 жыл бұрын

    I love that this man in one breath says little is known of this king, then in the next quotes from the Bible, and says "yep but this is likely wrong". He had no proof that it was wrong, but if he acknowledges that the Bible is in fact historically accurate (which to this date archeology has proven that the Bible is far more accurate on ancient times than secular history, in fact cities and people that are only found in the Bible at one time were then found by both secular and Christian archeologists.) There is no reason not to believe the great Nebuchadnezzar went mad, as a matter of fact our guy supported this with the tablet of him proclaiming all his deeds, which when you read the book of Daniel, you see a passage of Nebuchadnezzar deeds, written by him. One of the only times you see something like that, he praised himself, giving none of the glory to God and his punishment was to be made like an animal, eating the grass and go mad for a time. If he acknowledged this, he would then surely have to acknowledge the rest, which the world very much does not want to recognize. Jesus is Lord, in Him will you find rest, peace, contentment. His words are true, He is the Word made flesh after all.

  • @daveyboy6985

    @daveyboy6985

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amen

  • @USSR413

    @USSR413

    2 жыл бұрын

    Check out Derek Prince

  • @traceylok675

    @traceylok675

    2 жыл бұрын

    And he said there's no record of him going mad yet there is...in the Bible!

  • @ScipioWasHere
    @ScipioWasHere3 жыл бұрын

    You can’t spell Nebuchadnezzar without Chad

  • @AlexGiacoman1
    @AlexGiacoman13 жыл бұрын

    According to the discovery channel they did find evidence of the hanging gardens. They even made a small replica.

  • @melissaguy2221
    @melissaguy22213 жыл бұрын

    Loved this one

  • @kuwaitisnotadeployment1373
    @kuwaitisnotadeployment13733 жыл бұрын

    Can we take a second and acknowledge the Macho Man Randy Savage reference ✊

  • @vespasianflaviustheemperor7901

    @vespasianflaviustheemperor7901

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ohhh yeaaah, can ya dig it.

  • @kuwaitisnotadeployment1373

    @kuwaitisnotadeployment1373

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@vespasianflaviustheemperor7901 😂

  • @steelerspittsburgh875

    @steelerspittsburgh875

    3 жыл бұрын

    Simon is epic

  • @21MarketaDiva

    @21MarketaDiva

    3 жыл бұрын

    ✊🏾

  • @kuwaitisnotadeployment1373

    @kuwaitisnotadeployment1373

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@21MarketaDiva No You Are! 😉

  • @ElysiumEverlasting777
    @ElysiumEverlasting7773 жыл бұрын

    Simon: mentions chaldea me: FGO?!?!?!

  • @mhamedkabal5242
    @mhamedkabal52423 жыл бұрын

    Hello Simon, I absolutely love all of your channels. My two favorites are by far Biographics and Geographics, because you will never run out of people and places to explore. I know you have a poll for what content you release but you may find Herman Bodson, a pacifist and mineralist that became the most valuable asset and saboteur of the Belgian resistance against Nazi occupation.

  • @hazeldecker622
    @hazeldecker6223 жыл бұрын

    Simon just be blazing errywhere these days!

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын

    1:25 - Chapter 1 - The fall of Nineveh 4:45 - Chapter 2 - Clash of titans 7:45 - Chapter 3 - Captivity 11:30 - Mid roll ads 13:20 - Chapter 4 - Building the myth 16:50 - Chapter 5 - In the gardens of babylon 20:20 - Chapter 6 - The madness of the king

  • @sebbensebbenandsebben691
    @sebbensebbenandsebben6913 жыл бұрын

    Any leaders who capture the long nose tribemen is good in my book.

  • @Matkin222
    @Matkin2223 жыл бұрын

    I'd be really interested in seeing you do a bio of Paracelsus. The man was kind of incredible, managing to cure diseases that had no cure.

  • @kvelez
    @kvelez3 жыл бұрын

    Good video, it deserves a like.

  • @michaelhurley3171
    @michaelhurley31713 жыл бұрын

    Simon I: Master of KZread!

  • @ARIXANDRE
    @ARIXANDRE3 жыл бұрын

    Bio, consider doing one on Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes. Lots of drama and dark stuff with that guy!

  • @Fifi-ql3zc

    @Fifi-ql3zc

    3 жыл бұрын

    he is featured in the Montezuma vid from last year

  • @optimvsprinceps1845

    @optimvsprinceps1845

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or a doubleheader with Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Castille. Would also be interested in Charles I otherwise known as Charles V and his sons, Phillip II and his illegitimate one, Don Juan de Austria.

  • @ARIXANDRE

    @ARIXANDRE

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Fifi-ql3zc yes, a lot of characters cross over, which is great. I still think Cortes deserves his own video.

  • @Mittelalterfreak93
    @Mittelalterfreak933 жыл бұрын

    Everytime im in the Pergamon museum here in Berlin I stand in front of the Ishtar Gate and just look at it for half an hours. Its Just marvellous!

  • @szlava3641
    @szlava36413 жыл бұрын

    It’s great timing that you came out with a video about Nebuchadnezzar because the Jewish holiday of Purim is around the corner and he plays a role as the grandfather of one of the characters of the story

  • @Clausita26preciosa

    @Clausita26preciosa

    3 жыл бұрын

    who are you talking about?

  • @lernmor2137
    @lernmor2137 Жыл бұрын

    It is rumored that scribes wrote his name as 'NebuCHADnezzar'

  • @arturomckenzie7644

    @arturomckenzie7644

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @ParagonPKC
    @ParagonPKC3 жыл бұрын

    A couple things, they weren't really Jews until after the sack in 586 BC, the "wiping the dish". They were Judeans first, as Israel had been captured by Sargon II of Assyria in 722 BC there was no unified Israel anymore. The reason for this is Judeans being local to the temple meant that their faith was region-locked, like many ancient near eastern or semitic religions, you had the Baal of Peor, Baal of Hazor, Baal of many places in the old testament. Judeans able to worship in their own land were just that, Judeans. Being away from the Temple started the idea for the Jews that God was with them wherever they went, the purpose of Ezekiel, the most puzzling book imo. The term Jew started upon their return 70-80 years later, when they rebuilt the wall and foundations for the second temple. There the Romans came in (Herod I's temple is the second temple) where you have events like the Hasmonean revolt, they rebuilt the wall and added expansions after an attack. Many apocryphal (Catholic biblical canon) books were written during this time as well, before the birth of Jesus. Those "better off" Judeans who stayed during the deportations were forced to devour each other and their children during the seige. Those departed could not keep their religion. One example, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were Babylonian names given to them, they were made to eat foods Judaism tells them is unclean, (this is why Daniel fasted in protest) and were forced to worship his image, all common practices in near eastern conquest. Dissimilar to the Assyrian method, those who invented crucifixion took to spreading the ten northern tribes of Israel around and replacing the Samarian inhabitants with foreigners. This is where you get "Samaritan" or Samarian (Israel) foreigner, and rumors of lost pockets of Jews by blood strewn about the middle east. The Biblical narrative in Daniel isn't Chronological, neither is the whole bible. It's books by genre, but in Daniel it's out of order. You have Cyrus, a persian king, we know this because of persian loanwords in older manuscripts, lions were used for torture as fire was sacred etc. Nebuchadnezzar's son is there, but if you read all of that in order it's a different kind of evil, a manipulation, erasure of culture/history. But most importantly, Hebrew uses active words to describe passive actions, so things like "God sent an evil spirit on Saul" means God didn't intervene when an evil spirit came upon him, he would normally as he anointed Saul, like with his people, but as he let Saul fall sick, he let and used history's course to exemplify his lesson Also Nebuchadnezzar helping to rebuild the temple to Marduk is nothing unlike ancient Egyptians who would choose the house of which God they wanted to serve or best fit their campaign, should they pay tribute to, build more temples for, and conquer nations in the name of said god. That's why there are many temples scattered about the Egyptian landscape. The ancient religious thinking is the same

  • @Furko08
    @Furko083 жыл бұрын

    I saw the Ishtar gate in a museum in Berlin a few years ago. It's really impressive to close up see what people built thousands of years ago

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter3 жыл бұрын

    Good video 👍

  • @robertmosher7418
    @robertmosher74182 жыл бұрын

    When I was in Iraq there was a home or large stone building in old west Mosul where the owners had built a hanging garden that I thought would have been a smaller hanging garden of Babylon. I doubt thar building, along with all the history of the Assyrian empire that had survived for almost 3000 years still exists in all but rubble now. The isis zelots destryed anything they could find that wasn't islamic. Especially if it was Christian.

  • @Throbbit

    @Throbbit

    2 жыл бұрын

    thar, zelots, destryed..... Yeah... nuff said.

  • @heartsgoing
    @heartsgoing2 жыл бұрын

    I read up on both the old and new testaments. I learned a bit about Nebucanezzar (totally spelled wrong). Pretty cool dude!

  • @jamellfoster6029

    @jamellfoster6029

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah he got arrogant & God cursed him to have a mental breakdown so severe that he behaved like a bovine until he humbled himself before God & acknowledged God as the King of Kings... I mean God had warned him through a dream & when God sent Pre-Incarnate Jesus to rescue the 3 young Jewish men...

  • @USSR413

    @USSR413

    2 жыл бұрын

    Check out Derek Prince

  • @jamellfoster6029

    @jamellfoster6029

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@USSR413 Amen... I love Pastor Prince...

  • @amandajones661
    @amandajones661 Жыл бұрын

    It's always so amazing to me that we know so much about people so long ago. I mean, we know about Egyptian leaders thousands of years ago. It's amazing.

  • @Reedinho
    @Reedinho3 жыл бұрын

    Simon and the Macho King: The tag team I didn't know I needed.

  • @zer0deaths862
    @zer0deaths8622 жыл бұрын

    Plot Twist: his real name was Nebu Nezzar but was greatly remembered for being a Chad.

  • @Dodlo32888

    @Dodlo32888

    Жыл бұрын

    Nedu🗿nezzar

  • @hermanessences
    @hermanessences3 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: When the Old Testament mentions "the morning star", later translated to Lucifer in Latin versions, it was just a name for this guy.

  • @yugitrump435

    @yugitrump435

    3 жыл бұрын

    If that's actually true then that explains the whole "Lucifer Morningstar" in DC comics and shows.

  • @shanestevens5352

    @shanestevens5352

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yugitrump435 yeah, the term Lucifer doesn’t show up in translations until as early as the second century CE. Before than the term was mainly thought to refer to Venus when it’s visible in the sky.

  • @pureblack3363

    @pureblack3363

    3 жыл бұрын

    What's your source for that claim?

  • @JohnThomas-no9hs

    @JohnThomas-no9hs

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pureblack3363 are you too lazy to google? Or you just gonna do the religious thing and wait for someone to tell you what to believe?

  • @pureblack3363

    @pureblack3363

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JohnThomas-no9hs I'm asking for a source that's all if you can't provide that then STFU

  • @boden8138
    @boden81383 жыл бұрын

    Well done

  • @oftin_wong
    @oftin_wong3 жыл бұрын

    Very eloquent narration

  • @brandond.7768
    @brandond.77682 жыл бұрын

    "Writers in the grecko-roman world generally had a knowledge of geography on par with your Facebook addicted uncles knowledge on epidemiology."

  • @WeirdWonderful
    @WeirdWonderful2 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure Ashur-uballit II only took power after the fall of Nineveh. Ashurbanipal's immediare successors were, in order, the brothers Ashur-etil-ilani and Sinsharishkun and it was under the latter that the Babylonian revolt of Nabopolassar took place.

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff Жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @drmattconrad77
    @drmattconrad773 жыл бұрын

    I appreciated the transition to the ad.

  • @taskforceknight9336
    @taskforceknight93363 жыл бұрын

    The Architect of the Babylonian Empire

  • @meekapac3489
    @meekapac34892 жыл бұрын

    When i used to smoke weed, one of my bubblers were named Nebuchadnezzar.

  • @sleepydoghistory9994
    @sleepydoghistory99943 жыл бұрын

    good one! do one of Chang Hsueh-Laing the last warlord

  • @blackblurable
    @blackblurable3 жыл бұрын

    What a great biography on a king barely remembered today. Only known to those who are religious or grew up under those circumstances, mainly. From the ancient wonders of the world as well. He did a lot in a relative short amount of time as king. People have heard of Babylon, but you had to do your research to know what went on during that era. I knew the Hanging Gardens was mainly a beautiful myth or story. I wish it was constructed today with a retro fashion akin to what marvels Nebuchadnezzar did build

  • @krishnangaklittlemachines2631
    @krishnangaklittlemachines26313 жыл бұрын

    Plz make something on ancient indian historical figures. There's sooo much there. Unexplored.

  • @dwashbur
    @dwashbur2 жыл бұрын

    Regarding Nebuchanezzar's madness in the book of Daniel, would we really expect the king's official records to include such an episode? Given his ego he would likely have gone on a major campaign to erase the event from all records. As usual, absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.

  • @corinnebrixton6577

    @corinnebrixton6577

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, agreed, AND there are big gaps also (as I understand it) in our knowledge of Nebuchadnezzar, with very few contemporary cuneiform records about his reign.

  • @sarahluchies1076

    @sarahluchies1076

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wasn't there also that change in attitude to respect other gods near the end of his reign? If that isn't evidence of something happening, I'm mot sure what would be.

  • @silververnallbells191

    @silververnallbells191

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or maybe there is no madness? We call Putin crazy but honestly psychologically he's pretty solid. Stalin? Crazy. It's just a story Jewish people told each other to make themselves feel better. People can't eat grass for example. And calling him unkempt (hair like feathers, nails like an eagles) is just to insult him like how Napolean's not really short, but we will always refer to him as such to degrade him.

  • @dandylionsloth446

    @dandylionsloth446

    2 жыл бұрын

    People can't live off grass so that debunks it.

  • @midgetman4206

    @midgetman4206

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dandylionsloth446 Probably not that literal.

  • @Gavinkeenan1
    @Gavinkeenan13 жыл бұрын

    Great vid

  • @deemariedubois4916
    @deemariedubois49163 жыл бұрын

    Nebu, as we his friends called him, was quite the guy. When centuries pass the name Simon Whistler will still be known as his videos are used to educate the masses.

  • @Rob-qv8hi
    @Rob-qv8hi3 жыл бұрын

    The h in Chaldean is silent according to my friends Chaldean wife

  • @inmezzoallonde7196

    @inmezzoallonde7196

    3 жыл бұрын

    aspirated

  • @Ammar.D

    @Ammar.D

    3 жыл бұрын

    There are Caldeans today? Hmmmm interesting

  • @yugitrump435

    @yugitrump435

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ammar.D it's a region and the people from there are called Chaldeans

  • @Ammar.D

    @Ammar.D

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yugitrump435 I know that it's a region I'm from around that area but I've never heard people refer to them selves as Chaldanean but eatch to tgeir own it's not that important to me I was just windering

  • @yugitrump435

    @yugitrump435

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ammar.D ahh. Well maybe the locals have their own unique name compared to people from outside it? I guess its kinda like how here in America we say we're from either our home state or home region depending on if in our state or out of it, while everyone else calls us all "Americans"