20 And allies went out with him in such a multitude as locusts and as the sand of the earth, because of the multitude there was no number to them.

21 And when they had travelled three days from Nineveh to the front of the plain of Becteleth, they turned from Becteleth, near the mountain which lies on the left side of upper Cilicia.

22 From thence he took all his army, foot and horse, and his chariots, and went into the hill country;

23 And he smote Fudian and Ludian, and plundered all the sons of Rassis and the sons of Ishmael, who dwelt in the wilderness south to the land of Helleon.

24 And when he had crossed the Euphrates, he passed through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high cities by the brook Avron, as far as he entered the sea.

25 And when he had taken the borders of Cilicia, he slew all that were opposed to him, and when he had gone to the borders of Japheth, which lie to the south on the front side of Arabia,

26 And he went round about all the children of Midian, and burned their dwellings, and plundered their flocks.

27 And he went down to the plain of Damascus, at the time of the wheat harvest, and burned all their fields, and gave up their flocks of sheep and oxen to be destroyed, and plundered their cities, and laid waste their fields, and smote all their young men with the edge of the sword.

28 Fear and terror came upon the inhabitants of the seaside country who dwelt in Sidon and Tyre, and upon the inhabitants of Sur and Okina, and upon all the inhabitants of Iemnaan, and all the inhabitants of Ashdod and Ascalon were greatly frightened by it.

Chapter 3

1 And they sent messengers to him with this peace proposal:

2 behold, we, servants of the great king Nebuchadnezzar, prostrate ourselves before thee: do unto us what thou wilt.

3 Behold, before thee, both our villages, and all our places, and all the fields of wheat, and the flocks of sheep and oxen, and all the buildings of our dwellings: use them as thou wilt.

4 Behold, our cities, and those that dwell in them, are thy servants: go and deal with them as thine eyes please.