Nabuchodonosor

Yet, if we admit the Colenso system of interpretation, the difficulty is insuperable, because the meaning of the sentence is, that Nabuchodonosor himself carried that immense multitude on his back from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Hearing, therefore, “that the governor which he had set over Egypt and over the parts of Coele-Syria and Phœnicia had revolted from him, he was not able to bear it any longer, but committing certain parts of his army to his son Nabuchodonosor, who was then but young, he sent him against the rebel.”

As he lay upon his bed, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, “and his spirit was terrified, and the dream went out of his mind.”

We will only note that in the interval Nabuchodonosor and Cyrus and Alexander and Cæsar had set up the four world-empires.

But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath shown to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter times.