Nabonidus, in fact, had excited a strong feeling against himself by attempting to centralize the religion of Babylonia in the temple of Merodach (Marduk) at Babylon, and while he had thus alienated the local priesthoods the military party despised him on account of his antiquarian tastes.
centralize הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד