Nabopolassar

• General Notes
  • With all this splendor the Babylonian empire was nothing more than a   sh ort epilogue to that of Assyria, ruled by the same methods and     equally i ncapable of accomplishing anything permanent in politics.   The succeeding kings from Evil Merodach (2 Kgs. 25: 2 Again the  Medes advanced in alliance with the Babylonians, and     Nineveh   fell, cir. 607 B.C. Assyria proper and the northern     provinces  fell into  the hands of the Medes, while Syria lay open to   be  seized by Nabopolassa r, king of Babylon. Onthis side, howev