Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon." — 2 Chronicles 36:7 (ASV)
In his temple - Compare this to the house of his god in Daniel 1:2. Nebuchadnezzar's inscriptions show him to have been the special devotee of Merodach, the Babylonian Mars. His temple, which the Greeks called the temple of Belus, was one of the most magnificent buildings in Babylon. Its ruins still remain in the vast mound, called Babil, which is the loftiest and most imposing of the “heaps” that mark the site of the ancient city.