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1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh, in the days of Arphaxad, who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana

2 And he built around Ecbatan walls of hewn stones, three cubits in breadth, and six cubits long; And he made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits;

3 And he set towers over the gate a hundred cubits, which were about sixty cubits wide at the base;

4 And the gate which he built for the departure of his mighty armies, and for the ranks of his infantry, was raised seventy cubits high, and forty cubits wide.

5 In those days king Nebuchadnezzar made war against king Arphaxad in the great plain, which is within the borders of Ragau.

6 And all that dwelt in the hill country gathered unto him, and all that dwelt by the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and Idaspis, and Arioch king of Elymy from the plain, and a great many nations were gathered together in the army of the children of Chelehud.

7 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Assyria sent to all those who dwelt in Persia, and to all those who dwelt in the west, to those who dwelt in Cilicia, and Damascus, and Lebanon, and Antilebanon, and to all who dwelt on the front side of the sea,

8 and between the nations of Carmel and Gilead, and in the upper Galilee, and in the great plain of Esdraelon,

9 And to all that dwell in Samaria, and in the cities thereof, and beyond the Jordan to Jerusalem, and to Betani, and to Hela, and to Cadiz, and to the river of Egypt, and to Taphnah, and to Ramessa, and in all the land of Goshen

10 to the entrance into upper Tanis and Memphis, and to all who dwell in Egypt until the entrance into the borders of Ethiopia.

11 But all those who dwelt in all this land despised the word of Nebuchadnezzar king of Assyria, and did not go to him to war, because they were not afraid of him, but he was to them as one of them: they sent away his messengers from them empty-handed, in disgrace.

12 And Nebuchadnezzar was very angry with all the land, and swore by his throne and by his kingdom to avenge all the borders of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, and by his sword to put to death all that dwelt in the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judah, and all that dwelt in Egypt before they entered into the borders of the two seas.