1 It was in the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, who ruled in the great city of Nineveh that, at the same time, Arphaxad, king of the Medes, ruled at Ecbatana.
2 Arphaxad had built around Ecbatana ramparts of stone, with each stone cut to the size of one and a half meters wide and three meters long. The ramparts were thirty-five meters high and twenty-five meters wide.
3 He built at the gates city towers which were fifty meters high and rested on foundations twenty meters wide.
4 The gates themselves were thirty-five meters high and twenty meters wide, wide enough for his valiant warriors and foot soldiers to march through them in battle array.
5 In those days, King Nebuchadnezzar made war on King Arphaxad in the Great Plain, that is, the plain near the territory of the Ragae.
6 All the people who lived in the mountains, those who lived along the banks of the rivers Euphrates, Tigris and Hydaspes, those on the plains of Arioch, king of the Elamites, and many other peoples joined the ranks of the Chaldeans to fight against the sons of Cheleoud.
7 Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, sent his messengers to all those living in Persia and in the West, to the inhabitants of Cilicia, Damascus, Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, to those along the seacoast,
8 to the people of Carmel, Gilead, Upper Galilee and the Great Plain of Esdraelon,
9 to those in Samaria and its towns, and beyond the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, Bethany, Chelous, Kadesh, the River of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Raamses, and all the country of Goshen
10 as far as the region beyond Tanis and Memphis, and to all the inhabitants of Egypt as far as the country of Ethiopia.
11 But the inhabitants of all these regions took no notice of the order of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, and did not join him in waging war. They no longer feared him because they considered him just like any other man. They sent back his messengers empty-handed and shamefaced.
12 Nebuchadnezzar was greatly enraged against all these regions and swore by his throne and by his kingdom to punish all the districts of Cilicia, Damascus and Syria, and to put to the sword all who were in the lands of Moab, Ammon, the whole of Judea, and all those in Egypt as far as the coasts between the two seas.
13 In the seventeenth year, Nebuchadnezzar went to battle with his army against King Arphaxad, and conquered him in the campaign. He drove back the army of Arphaxad with all his cavalry and chariots.
14 Nebuchadnezzar occupied all the cities. Finally, he reached Ecbatana where he demolished its towers, pillaged the streets of the city and reduced its splendor to ruins.
15 He pursued Arphaxad into the mountains of the Ragae, pierced him through with arrows and utterly destroyed him.
16 Then he returned to Nineveh with a great crowd of followers and a considerable multitude of soldiers. He and his entire army stayed there amusing themselves and feasting for one hundred and twenty days.
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The book of Judith is one of the Old Testament's Deuterocanonian books that tells the story of Judite, a brave widow who saved the city of Betulia from the invasion of the Assyrians. Chapter 1 of this book describes the invasion of the Assyrians led by Nebuchadnezzar and how they conquered several cities, including Israel. Here are five verses related to the topics covered in Judite 1:
Isaiah 10:5-6: "Woe to Assyria, the rod of my wrath, in whose hands is my indignation! Take the spoil, and put it to be stepped on the feet like the mud of the streets. " This verse talks about the punishment that God is bringing about Assyria, which is used as an instrument of divine wrath.
2 Kings 18:13: "And in the year fourth of King Hezekiah, rose Senaqueribe, king of Assyria, against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them." This verse describes how Assyria invaded and conquered the cities of Judah, including Jerusalem.
Isaiah 7:17: "The Lord shall come upon you, your people, and upon the house of your father, as they have never come from the day Efraim departed from Judah, that is, the king of Assyria. " This verse talks about the threat that Assyria represents to God's people and how they will face difficult days.
2 Kings 17:5-6: "Then he came against him Salmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hosea was subject to him and paid him tribute. But the king of Assyria found that Hosea conspired and sent messengers to only King of Egypt, and I no longer paid tribute to the Assyrian king, as he did annually. " This verse describes how the king of Israel, Hosea, submitted to Assyria and how it ended in conspiracy and betrayal.
2 Kings 17:18: "From what the Lord was very outrageous against Israel and removed them from before his face, and no other tribe was, but only that of Judah." This verse describes how Israel's infidelity and disobedience led to its divine punishment, resulting in its removal from the presence of the Lord.
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