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co-ruler with his son Belshazzar - {Note: Where Joseph was made 2nd
in charge in Egypt (Genesis 41:40) because Pharaoh Akhenaten did not
yet have a son, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had a son
Nabonidus so Daniel was made 3rd ruler in Babylon (Daniel 5:7).}
Reign: In most ancient accounts, Nabonidus is depicted as a royal anomaly. He is supposed to have worshiped the
moon god Sin beyond all the other gods, to have paid special devotion to Sin's temple in Harran, where his mother
was a priestess, and to have neglected the Babylonian primary god, Marduk. Because of the tensions that these
religious reforms generated, he had to leave the capital for the desert oasis of Tayma in Arabia early in his reign,
from which he only returned after many years. In the meantime, his son Belshazzar ruled from Babylon, supposedly
in the manner of an oriental despot.
wikipedia.org: Belshazzar - Belshazzar, or Balthazar was a 6th century
BC prince of Babylon, the son of Nabonidus and the last king of
Babylon according to the Book of Daniel
In 540 BC, Nabonidus returned from Tayma, hoping to defend his kingdom from the Persians [4th Global Gentile
Kingdom] who were planning to advance on Babylon. Belshazzar was positioned in the city of Babylon to hold the
capital, while Nabonidus marched his troops north to meet Cyrus. On October 10, 539 BC, Nabonidus surrendered
and fled from Cyrus. Two days later the Persian armies overthrew the city of Babylon. -- "Daniel 8:1-3 In the third
year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared
unto me at the first. And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace,
which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai." -- "Daniel 5:1-7 Belshazzar
the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he
tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out
of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink
therein. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at
Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and
praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers
of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the
king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him,
so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. The king cried aloud to bring in
the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. ..."
Wikipedia.org: Pharaoh Akhenaten (possibly Joseph's dream Pharaoh -
Genesis 41:1) - a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt [2nd
Global Kingdom - Egypt] who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in
1336 BC or 1334 BC - Wife: Queen, Nefertiti, son from late in life King
Tutankhamun - Interest in Akhenaten increased with the discovery in
the Valley of the Kings, at Luxor, of the tomb of King Tutankhamun,
who has been proved to be Akhenaten's son according to DNA testing
in 2010 - He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian
polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is
sometimes described as monotheistic - Akhenaten tried to bring about
a departure from traditional religion, yet in the end it would not be
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