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Judith 1
Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations
under his dominions, and he built a very strong city,
which he called Ecbatana,
Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof
seventy cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the
towers thereof he made a hundred cubits high. But on
the square of them, each side was extended the space
of twenty feet.
And he made the gates thereof according to the height
of the towers:
And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army
and in the glory of his chariots.
Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor
king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great
city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him,
In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the
Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain
of Erioch the king of the Elicians.
Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and
his heart was elevated: and he sent to all that dwelt
in Cilicia and Damascus, and Libanus,
And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar,
and to the inhabitants of Galilee in the great plain
of Asdrelon,
And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river
Jordan even to Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse
till you come to the borders of Ethiopia.
To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent
messengers:
But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back
empty, and rejected them without honour.
Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that
land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would
revenge himself of all those countries.
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