Nebuchadnezzar

For when Jerusalem had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, the kingdom was dissolved, and there were no longer hereditary successions of the rulers as there had been before;

And in the twelfth year of the reign of Sedekias, Nebuchadnezzar, seventy years before the rule of the Persians, marched against the Phoenicians and the Jews, as Berossus says in his Chaldean histories.

In the fulfilment of the eleventh year, then, at the beginning of the following one, when Joakim was reigning, the captivity to Babylon comes about under King Nebuchadnezzar, in his seventh year of reigning over the Assyrians, while Vaphres reigned over the Egyptians in his second year, and Philip was archon at Athens in the first year of the forty-eighth Olympiad;

‘The English Colonists did embrace and use the Irish customs, after they had rejected the Civil and Honourable Laws and Customs of England, whereby they became degenerate and metamorphosed like Nebuchadnezzar, who, although he had the face of a man, had the heart of a beast;

Nor did Elisha ever signify to Naaman the Syrian, nor Jonas to the Ninevites, nor Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar, nor the other Prophets to the Tyrians, the Moabites, the Egyptians, to whom they wrote, that it was necessary for them to adopt the Mosaic Law.

if Nebuchadnezzar with his petty kings, from India to Ethiopia he held the bounds of his kingdom;

whose liberality is wont to distil even upon the profane, since God too levels His rains and His suns equally upon the just and the unjust — seeing that Nebuchadnezzar too dreamed by divine appointment, and nearly the greater number of men learn God out of visions.

For on this account also that example of the three brethren went before, who, otherwise obedient toward King Nebuchadnezzar, most constantly refused the honour of his image, proving that to be idolatry whatever is exalted beyond the measure of human honour after the likeness of divine sublimity.

Thus that king of Babylon, having offended the Lord, when for seven years he had been an exile from human form in squalor and filth, by the immolated patience of his body both recovered his kingdom and — what is more desirable for a man — gave satisfaction to God.