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Daniel 4:33-4: "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:"
Daniel 5:1-2 has the book's chief character, Daniel, repeat this to Nebuchadnezzar's 'son', Belshazzar, for emphasis: "And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will."
Of course this is too transparently a story to humiliate the greatest enemy the Jews ever had, the king who exiled the Jews to Babylon, as well as an opportunity to 'demonstrate' that even the enemy of the Jews ultimately acknowledged the primacy of the Jewish God. Nebuchadnezzar lived among the animals in the Old Testament, but there is no historical record of this ever occurring in real life.
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