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Nebuchadnezzar clapped the Egyptian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE — this one battle decided that Babylon, not Egypt, would run the world.
In 605 BCE, Crown Prince Nebuchadnezzar led the Babylonian army against Pharaoh Necho II's Egyptian forces at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. It was a decisive Babylonian victory that ended Egyptian influence in the Levant permanently. Jeremiah had prophesied this exact outcome. The Babylonian Chronicle records the battle in detail, and Nebuchadnezzar had to rush home mid-campaign when his father Nabopolassar died — becoming king while still on the road.
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