1<\/sup>Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his dominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana,<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers:<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>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,<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>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,<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the inhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon,<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent messengers:<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and rejected them without honour.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those countries.<\/span> <\/p>\n