他後來將殘骸打碎，利用900隻駱駝運回家裡。這個故事可能是由巴比倫伽勒底帝國國王  尼布甲尼撒二世 的夢境所衍伸出來的隱喻，可能被7世紀早期任何一位修道士當作新約聖經中所描述的啟示錄即將到來的證據。
The Nine Days are part of a larger period of time known as The Three Weeks , which begin with the public fast day of the Seventeenth of Tammuz — commemorated in Judaism for the time when the forces of  Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia broke through the defensive walls surrounding Jerusalem , generally accepted as happening in 586 BCE — and end with the public fast day of Tisha B'Av — when the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple in 597 BCE and when the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE .
两词在上述语境中含义相同。