sources do not back this up. An obscure, fragmentary Babylonian text refers to a campaign against Egypt undertaken by Nebuchadnezzar in his thirty-seventh year (568–567; see ANET3, p. 308d). We know that Amasis was not dethroned, but the very effort shows that to his last years the Babylonian regarded Egypt as a threat to his western flank. The data in the Book of Ezekiel dovetail with this course of events. The major concern of Ezekiel’s doom prophecies is to convince his audience that their hope