11 Therefore, children, know what alms do, and how justice saves. "When he said this, his soul left him on his bed; And he was one hundred and fifty-eight years old, and his son buried him with honor.

12 And when Hannah died, he buried her also with his father. And Tobias, with his wife, and his children, went to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law;

13 And he came to an honorable old age, and gave a decent burial to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and received for an inheritance their possessions, and Tobit his father.

14 And he died a hundred and twenty-seven years old in Ecbatana of the Medes.

15 But before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Hasuir had taken captive, and he rejoiced before his death over Nineveh.

The Book of Judith

Chapter 1

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 и поставил над воротами башни во сто локтей, имевшие в основании до шестидесяти локтей ширины;

4 а ворота, построенные им для выхода сильных войск его и для строев пехоты его, поднимались в высоту на семьдесят локтей, а в ширину имели сорок локтей:

5 в те дни царь Навуходоносор предпринял войну против царя Арфаксада на великой равнине, которая в пределах Рагава.

6 К нему собрались все живущие в нагорной стране, и все живущие при Евфрате, Тигре и Идасписе, и с равнины Ариох, царь Елимейский, и сошлись очень многие народы в ополчение сынов Хелеуда.

7 И послал Навуходоносор, царь Ассирийский, ко всем живущим в Персии и ко всем живущим на западе, к живущим в Киликии и Дамаске, Ливане и Антиливане, и ко всем живущим на передней стороне приморья,