1 It was the twelfth year of Nebuchadnezzar who reigned over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh. Arphaxad was then reigning over the Medes in Ecbatana.
2 He surrounded this city with walls of dressed stones three cubits thick and six cubits long, making the rampart seventy cubits high and fifty cubits wide.
3 At the gates he placed towers one hundred cubits high and, at the foundations, sixty cubits wide,
4 the gates themselves being seventy cubits high and forty wide to allow his forces to march out in a body and his infantry to parade freely.
5 About this time King Nebuchadnezzar gave battle to King Arphaxad in the great plain lying in the territory of Ragae.
6 Supporting him were all the peoples from the highlands, all from the Euphrates and Tigris and Hydaspes, and those from the plains who were subject to Arioch, king of the Elymaeans. Thus many nations had mustered to take part in the battle of the Cheleoudites.
7 Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent a message to all the inhabitants of Persia, to all the inhabitants of the western countries, Cilicia, Damascus, Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, to all those along the coast,
8 to the peoples of Carmel, Gilead, Upper Galilee, the great plain of Esdraelon,
9 to the people of Samaria and its outlying towns, to those beyond Jordan, as far away as Jerusalem, Bethany, Chelous, Kadesh, the river of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Rameses and the whole territory of Goshen,
10 beyond Tanis too and Memphis, and to all the inhabitants of Egypt as far as the frontiers of Ethiopia.
11 But the inhabitants of these countries ignored the summons of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians and did not rally to him to make war. They were not afraid of him, since in their view he appeared isolated. Hence they sent his ambassadors back with nothing achieved and in disgrace.
12 Nebuchadnezzar was furious with all these countries. He swore by his throne and kingdom to take revenge on all the territories of Cilicia, Damascus and Syria, of the Moabites and of the Ammonites, of Judaea and Egypt as far as the limits of the two seas, and to ravage them with the sword.
13 In the seventeenth year, he gave battle with his whole army to King Arphaxad and in this battle defeated him. He routed Arphaxad's entire army and all his cavalry and chariots;
14 he occupied his towns and advanced on Ecbatana; he seized its towers and plundered its market places, reducing its former magnificence to a mockery.
15 He later captured Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragae and, thrusting him through with his spears, destroyed him once and for all.
16 He then retired with his troops and all who had joined forces with him: a vast horde of armed men. Then he and his army gave themselves up to carefree feasting for a 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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