8 Therefore, my son, go out of Nineveh, for surely the things that the prophet Jonah spoke will be fulfilled.

9 But thou shalt keep the law and the commandments, and be loving and just, that it may be well with thee.

10 Thou shalt bury me decently, and thy mother with me, and then thou shalt not tarry in Nineveh. "My son, see what Haman did to Ahiahar, who brought him up: how he brought him out of the light into darkness, and how he was rewarded. Ahiachar was saved, and he received a worthy retribution – he descended into darkness. Manasseh did almsgiving, and was saved from the mortal snare that was set for him; Haman fell into the net and perished.

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 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.