Babylonian King Proves Bible Accuracy

 

An ancient Babylonian King that some sceptics claimed never existed has emerged to prove the accuracy of the Biblical account. This is King Belshazzar.



For a long time these sceptics claimed that he was just another example of mythical characters in the Bible – another story made up by early Biblical fictions writers such as Daniel -- but some clay cylinders have proven his historical account to be accurate.



These cylinders discovered in the early nineteenth century referred to one Belshazzar, the son of Nabonidus , the known king of Babylon at the time that Cyrus the Great and his army of Medes and Persians sacked the city as described in the Biblical account. So Belshazzar did exist as Daniel wrote.



Not only did he exist, but other tablets discovered that at the time that Babylon fell to Cyrus the Great Belshazzar's father had entrusted the day to day governing of the kingdom to him as a sub-king. He was the number two ruler under his father at the time – but he was still the king of Babylon as described in the Bible as his father was living in semi-retirement outside of Babylon at the time.



So once again science has illustrated the accuracy of the Biblical record