What did Nebuchadnezzar do with the gold, silver, and bronze vessels from the temple in Jerusalem?
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem and, when the Lord gave Jehoiakim into his hand, carried part of the vessels of God’s house to Shinar/Babylon. He took the gold, silver, and brazen vessels from Jerusalem and placed them in a temple of his gods. They were later brought out at Belshazzar’s drunken feast.
Les teaches from Daniel chapter 1 that in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem and besieged it. The Lord gave Jehoiakim, king of Judah, into Nebuchadnezzar’s hand, as well as part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried to the land of Shinar, back to Babylon, to the house of his God. Les explains that he took all those gold, silver, and brazen vessels from Jerusalem back to Babylon and put them in one of the temples of his gods. Les suggests he probably got away with it because he likely did not use them until the great drunken feast of Belshazzar, when they brought in the vessels and used them for wine drinking and partying. Then came the handwriting on the wall. But all these vessels from that beautiful temple had been taken to Babylon.
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.