-Nadab:
One of the sons of evil
Jeroboam
I king of Israel, whose son also was wicked and reigned only two years:.1Kings
14:20; 15:25,26.
He succeeded his father in
B.C.E.
954 before being assassinated by Baasha,
who usurped
his kingdom.
Keeping with the universal
princiiple of reaping
what one has sown, this retributive.justice
some 24 years later fell on Baasha's family as Baasha had inflicted
on Nadab:.1Kings
16:11-14. With Nadab's end the dynasty
of Jeroboam was extirpated,
as foretold by the prophet Ahijah:.1Kings
14:7-12.
And so, here's what happened
to Nadab to end the
race
of Jeroboam I:.1Kings
15:27-30. This event is typical of the entire history of the Northern
Kingdom of Israel, characterized
by revolutions and counter revolutions, closeness to God when
in trouble and distant from God when not.
Nebuchadnezzar I,
long before Nebuchadnezzar II, the first Nebuchadnezzar was king of the
earlier Babylon. He reigned B.C.E. 1125-1103. During that time he conquered
Elam
after the death of its latest king. Elam was one of the first nations on
Earth.
-Nebuchadnezzar-II:.B.C.E.
630-562. Also spelt
Nebuchadrezzar. He was contemporary
with Cyrus
the Great.
He was king of Babylonia
605-562:.Isaiah
14:4. He captured.(in
597).and
destroyed.(586).Jerusalem
and carried the Israelites into
captivity in Babylonia. God calls this great king 'my servant'. God
used Nebuchadnezzar to take the stubborn and rebellious ancient people
of Israel into captivity. It would be better for them there than being
slaughtered if they resisted this king of the massive first world ruling
kingdom. They neglected God and automatically, this put them away from
God.(Psalms
103:10), his love and protection.
The very interesting story with many things for us all to learn:.Jeremiah
27:6-17. And please see about
God humbling Nebuchadnezzar. Guess who's in control!
Nebuchadnezzar II lived in
the time of the prophet.Daniel,
who prophesied
of the 'times
of the Gentiles' which time began with his reign.
Nebuchadnezzar II had one
big ego until God
humbled him:.Daniel
4:29-31. Ego thinking precludes
the flow of God to one's mind.
Nebuchadnezzar II became
a wild beast for seven years. Though his physicality was that of a beast,
his mind was the mind he always had; but it needed changing. Again, please
see Nebuchadnezzar's story.
And, Nebuchadnezzar's story
scripture by scripture:.Daniel
4th chapter.
Nebuchadnezzar II is remembered
for making Babylon one of the most outstandingly beautiful cities of the
ancient world. Babylon city included the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one
of the Seven Wonders of the World and was built for his Median
wife Amyitis, daughter of Cyaxares,
king of the Medes.
Nebuchadnezzar II's reign
was followed by his good kind son Evil-Merodach.
-Nebuzaradan:.New
and Concise Bible Dictionary:."Captain
of the guard or commander in chief of Nebuchadnezzar-II's
army at the capture of Jerusalem and afterwards at its destruction. He
told Jeremiah, when he released him from his chains, that God had brought
all this destruction upon Jerusalem because they had sinned against Jehovah
and had not obeyed His voice. He gave Jeremiah.liberty
to go where he pleased:.2Kings
25:8-20; Jeremiah 39:9-14;
40:1-4.
-Nergalsharezer.also
called Neriglissar and Nerglissar, was husband of Nebuchadnezzar II's daughter.
He was an evil prince in Babylon
who became king by killing his brother-in-law Evil-merodach
Nebuchadnezzar II's son, in B.C.E.
559:.Jeremiah
39:3.
Nergalsharezer was son of
Sennacherib.
On some bricks his name has been found as Nergal-shar-uzur, Rubu-emga.
He was married to a daughter
of Nebuchadnezzar-II. He was succeeded
by his son, a mere boy, named Labosodarchod, who was murdered after a reign
of some nine months by a conspiracy of the nobles, one of whom, Nabonadius,
ascended the vacant throne and reigned for a period of seventeen years
in about B.C.E. 555, at the close of which period Babylon was taken by
Cyrus
the Great.
Neriglissar/Nergalsharezer
was brother in law to Evil-Merodach
the good king of Babylon who was son of Nebuchadnezzar II. Nergalsharezer
conspired
against him and murdered him so he could reign as king.
-Nethinim:
were those who were taken captive and became willing servants of king David
and his son Solomon in the service
of the temple:.Ezra
2:58 "All the Nethinims and the children of Solomon's servants, were
three hundred ninety and two."
Ezra
2:70 "So the priests and the Levites and some of the people and the
singers and the porters and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities and all
Israel in their cities. Ezra 8:20 "Also
of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service
of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims, all of them were expressed
by name."
Nehemiah
11:3 "...in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in
their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests and the Levites and the Nethinims
and the children of Solomon's servants."
Concise
Bible Dictionary: The name 'Nethinim', signifies 'given' and 'devoted
ones' and was applied to those who assisted the Levites
in the service of the ancient tabernacle
and the temple. It does not appear that God appointed them, as He did
the Levites, but David and the princes appointed them for the service of
the Levites, see above paragraph. After the return from exile the Nethinim
are called the ‘ministers of this house of God.
The Nethinims grew in knowledge
while serving in Israel:.Nehemiah
10:28 "And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters,
the singers, the Nethinims and all they that had separated themselves from
the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons and
their daughters, every one having knowledge and having understanding."
-Nimrod:
He apparently founded Babylon
and the city of Nineveh and the Assyrian
empire. Nimrod is supposed to have begun the tower
of Babel. His name is still preserved by a vast ruinous mound, on the
site of ancient Babylon:.Genesis
10:8 "And Cush begat Nimrod. He
began to be a mighty one in the Earth."
Barnes
Notes:."Nimrod
himself made no secret of his designs and pursued them with a bold front
and a high hand and at the same time was aware of the name and will of
Yahweh.
This defiant.air
gives a new character to his hunting, which seems to have extended even
to man, as the term is sometimes so applied. His name, which literally
means 'we shall rebel', is in keeping with the practice of an arbitrary
and violent control over
men's persons and property."
Nineveh:
Nineveh, a huge city and capital of ancient Assyria.(map).
The Greeks and Romans called it "the great Ninus". It was situated on the
east bank of the Tigris, opposite and below the modern Mosul.
Its origin is traced to the
times near the flood. See Nimrod,
above. For nearly fifteen centuries afterwards it is not mentioned. In
the books of Jonah and Nahum it is described as an immense city, three
days' journey in circuit, containing more than one hundred and twenty thousand
young children or probably six hundred thousand souls. It contained much
cattle and numerous parks, garden groves, etc. Its inhabitants were wealthy,
warlike and far advanced in civilization. It had numerous strongholds with
gates and bars and had multiplied its merchants 'above the stars'. It is
said that its crowned princes were as locusts and its captains as grasshoppers.
With this description agrees that of the historian Diodorus Siculus, who
says Nineveh was twenty-one miles long, nine miles broad and fifty-four
miles in circumference; that its walls were a hundred feet high and so
broad that three chariots could drive upon them abreast and that it had
fifteen hundred towers, each two hundred feet high.
Nineveh had long been the
mistress of the East, but for her great luxury and wickedness, the prophet
Jonah
was sent, more than eight hundred years before Christ, to warn the Ninevites
of her speedy destruction. Their timely change of heart delayed for a time
the fall of the city, but about B.C.E.
753, the period of the foundation of Rome, it was taken by the Medes
under Arbaces and nearly a century and a half later, according to the predictions
of Nahum, it was a second time taken by Cyaraxes and Nabopolassar, after
which it no more recovered its former splendor. Subsequent writers mention
it but seldom and as an unimportant place, so complete was its destruction,
that for ages its site has been lost.
This whole extensive space
is now one immense area of ruins. The mounds which were the 'grave' of
its ruins, were covered with soil as to seem like natural hills. But since
1841, Layard, Botta and others have been exploring its remains, so long
undisturbed. The mounds chiefly explored lie at three corners of a trapezium
about eighteen miles long and twelve miles wide and nearly sixty miles
in circumference,
thus confirming the ancient accounts of its vast.extent.
The recent
excavations disclose temples and palaces, guarded by huge winged bulls
and lions with human heads. The apartments of these buildings are lined
with slabs of stone, covered with sculptures in bas-relief
and inscriptions in arrow-headed characters.
The
Assyrian empire then came to an end, the Medes and Babylonians
dividing its provinces between them. After having ruled for more than six
hundred years with hideous tyranny and violence, from the Caucasus and
the Caspian to the Persian Gulf and from beyond the Tigris to Asia Minor
and Egypt, it vanished like a dream. Its end was strange, sudden, tragic.
Forty years ago our knowledge
of the great Assyrian empire and of its magnificent capital was almost
wholly a blank. Vague memories had indeed survived of its power and greatness,
but very little was definitely known about it. Other cities which had perished,
as Palmyra, Persepolis and Thebes, had left ruins to mark their sites and
tell of their former greatness, but of this city, imperial
Nineveh, not a single vestige
remained.
Nisan:.Amtract
Dictionary:."A
Hebrew
month, nearly answering to our April,
but varying somewhat from year to year, according to the course of the
moon. It was the seventh month of the civil year, but was made the first
month of the sacred
year at the coming out of Egypt:.Exodus
12:1,2. By Moses it is called Abib:.Exodus
13:4. The name Nisan found only after the time of Ezra
and the return from the captivity of Babylon:.2Chronicles
36:10..It
was before this called Abib:.Exodus
13:4. The name Nisan means 'month of flowers' and 'beginning'; basically
Springtime. In their climate this was harvest time for grains, especially
barley..Concise
Bible Dictionary:."There
were two periods for the year to commence,
one called the Civil year and the other the Sacred."
The other months of the thirteen
are:
2) Zif,
May
3) Sivan,
June
4) Tammuz,
July
5) Ab,
August
6) Elul,
September
7) Ethanim
or Tisri, October
8) Bul,
November
9) Chisleu,
December
10) Tebeth,
January
11) Sebat,
February
12) Adar,
March
