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Arabian oasis where Babylonian king Nabonidus relocated his court for ten years — Belshazzar's father
ArabiaHistorically Verified
Modern Tayma in Saudi Arabia. Saudi-French excavations have uncovered Babylonian-period remains, and inscriptions confirm Nabonidus's ten-year residence — the same king whose son Belshazzar appears in Daniel 5.
An oasis town and tribal confederation in northwestern Arabia, named in Job and the prophets. Job mentions "the caravans of Tema" that look in vain for water in dry wadis (Job 6:19). Isaiah commanded the people of Tema to bring water to fugitives fleeing battle (Isaiah 21:14), and Jeremiah named Tema among the desert kings who would drink God's cup of wrath (Jeremiah 25:23). The town reached its peak when the last Babylonian king Nabonidus famously moved his royal court there for ten years in the 6th century BC — leaving Babylon to his son Belshazzar (the same Belshazzar of Daniel 5).
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