tyb
Yup. They've done it before. Weapons of mass destruction and all that.
From polytheism to monotheism is the reason why Genesis was written. Unfortunately not during the times of Moses, more like during the times of the exile to Babylon. The ancient traditions like creation (enuma elish), the flood and seven years of plenty and seven years of famine etc. parts of stories from other cultures and eras that predate the bible are re-written into their scrolls and scriptures updating ancient traditions of yahwism by emphasizing one god behind it all, not many gods. Since they were taken to Babylon, they were now exposed to that kind of monotheistic material probably because of places like Royal Library of Ashurbanipal where most of these ancient artifacts have been collected from since they were stored in ancient times like a huge time capsule and also put on exhibition in today's museums proving the timelessness of the artifacts and what information they leave behind. All leading back to Zoroastrianism being the source for the concept and practice of one god.
The bible says Nebuchadnezzar II acknowledged god over himself the thing is his god was marduk. Could this be an accounting of him converting to monotheism? He dies and only until Cyrus does the exile end. Cyrus was zoroastrian. This time period seems to be a time when many were now absorbing monothesim at it's foundation. Only until greeks and romans later does it explode through christianity.
The story of Ezekiel and how the destruction comes is similar to the destruction that happens to the second temple. There is a legend about Titus doing a special ceremony called 'Evocatio deorum', as an example of a Crisis Ritual in Roman Religion, where the initiator of the ceremonial ritual that might have included human sacrifice in some cases if not all would pray and offer worship to the god or gods of the enemy besieged to join their side and stop protecting the cities walls. And they apparently did that during the Titus siege and later on the romans make that one god their god as well.I haven't found anything like that with Nebuchadnezzar's battle of Jerusalem although he had more than one. The last one is the one where he destroyed the temple.
Lesson over.