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Nebuchadnezzar , 4th Isin King of Babylon
- Preferred Name: Nebuchadnezzar , 4th Isin King of Babylon
- Gender: M
- Death: 1106 BC
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 4th King of the 4th Dynasty (the Isin Dynasty) of Babylonia with note:
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 4th Isin King of BabylonBET 1122 BC AND 1100 BC
- Religion: retrieved the statue of Marduk (here called Bēl) and that of the goddess Il-āliya from Elam
- FSID: GWFH-69J
- MilitaryService: attacked Elam accompanied by the Kassite chieftain Šitti-Marduk who struck the decisive blow
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Nebuchadnezzar I or Nebuchadrezzar I, reigned c. 1121–1100 BC, was the fourth king of the Second Dynasty of Isin and Fourth Dynasty of Babylon. He ruled for 22 years according to the Babylonian King List C, and was the most prominent monarch of this dynasty. He is best known for his victory over Elam and the recovery of the cultic idol of Marduk.
He is unrelated to his later namesake, Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur II, who has come to be known by the Hebrew form of his name “Nebuchadnezzar.” Consequently, it is anachronistic but not inappropriate to apply this designation retroactively to the earlier king, as he does not make an appearance in the Bible. He is misidentified in the Chronicle Concerning the Reign of Šamaš-šuma-ukin as the brother of Širikti-šuqamuna probably in place of Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I. He succeeded his father, Ninurta-nādin-šumi, and was succeeded in turn by his son Enlil-nādin-apli, brother Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē and then nephew Marduk-šāpik-zēri, the only members of this family known to have reigned during the dynasty.
The Enmeduranki legend, or the Seed of kingship, is a Sumero-Akkadian composition relating his endowment with perfect wisdom (nam-kù-zu) by the god Marduk and his claim to belong to a “distant line of kingship from before the flood” and to be an “offspring of Enmeduranki, king of Sippar.” It begins with a lament over preceding events:
At that time, in the reign of a previous king, conditions changed. Good departed and evil was regular, The lord became angry and got furious. He gave the command and the gods of the land abandoned it […] its people were incited to commit crime. The guardians of peace became furious, and went up to the dome of heaven, the spirit of justice stood aside. …who guards living beings, prostrated the people, they all became like those who have no god. Evil demons filled the land, the namtar-demon […] they penetrated the cult centers. The land diminished, its fortunes changed. The wicked Elamite, who did not hold (the land’s) treasures in esteem, […] his battle, his attack was swift. He devastated the habitations, he made them into a ruin, he carried off the gods, he ruined the shrines.
— The seed of kingship, lines 15-24.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Ninurta-nadin-shumi , 3rd Isin King of Babylon, b. BEF 1127 BC in Babylonia
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