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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 2-The Great Image
of Babylon is almost a blank. In the time of
Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, Nabonassar
ascended the throne of Babylon in 747 B. C. He
is celebrated for the chronological era which
bears his name, and which began in 747 B. C.
About 720 Merodach-baladan became king of
Babylon, and sent ambassadors to Hezekiah,
king of Judah (see 2 Kings 20, and Isaiah 39).
A few years later, Sargon, king of Assyria,
defeated and dethroned Merodach-baladan.
Sennacherib completed the subjection of
Babylon, which he annexed to the Assyrian
empire about 690 B. C. The conquest of
Nineveh and the subversion of the Assyrian
empire, which was effected about 625 B. C., by
Cyaxeres the Mede, and his ally Nabopolassar,
the rebellious governor of Babylon, enabled
the latter to found the Babylonian empire,
which was the fourth of Rawlinson’s ‘Five
