he encouraged education and literature, especially the poets.
I bet the one you are looking for is Hammurabi / Hammurapi. However, there were more than one Babylonian kings...
Hammurabi
Charlemagne
The Chaldean or New Babylonian Empire
The king/monarchy of the Neo-Babylonian empire is Nebuchadnezzar II
The city was extinct.
King Hammurabi of Babylon created one of the earliest known written legal codes, known as the Code of Hammurabi. It was established around 1754 BC and consisted of 282 laws governing various aspects of Babylonian society.
Nebuchadnezzar is a Babylonian king who destroyed the temple of Solomon and started the Babylonian captivity of the Jews.
Hammurabi was actually king of the Babylonian empire. = )
He was the king of the Babylonian Empire.
Hammurabi
A famous Babylonian king.
he encouraged education and literature, especially the poets.
I bet the one you are looking for is Hammurabi / Hammurapi. However, there were more than one Babylonian kings...
Hammurabi
King Nebuchadnezzar was a Babylonian King, not an Israelite and Judean King and is therefore not in that book.