He was now an old man, and his reign does not seem to have been much prolonged; but "the glory of his kingdon," his "honor and brightness" returned; his last days were as brilliant as his first: his sun set in an unclouded sky, shorn of none of the rays that had given splendor to its noonday.

Nebuchadnezzar expired at Babylon in the forty-fourth year of his reign, B.C.

561, after an illness of no long duration.

He was probably little short of eighty years old at his death.
The successor of Nebuchadnezzar was his son Evil-Mero-dach, who reigned only two years, and of whom very little is known.

We may expect that the marvellous events of his father's life, which are recorded in the Book of Daniel, had made a deep impression upon him, and that he was thence inclined to favor the persons, and perhaps the religion, of the Jews.
One of his first acts was to release the unfortunate Jehoiachin from the imprisonment in which he had languished for thirty-five years, and to treat him with kindness and respect.