A   Arphaxat the kynge of the Medes subdued many people vnto his dominion, ∧ buylded a noble str&obar;ge cite, which he called Egbathanis. The walles of it made he of fre stone, foure squared, seu&ebar;tie cubites hye, and thirtie cubites brode. He made towres therevpon of an hundreth cubites hye. But vpon the foure corners euery syde was twentie fote brode. He made the portes in the heith, like as the towres. This kynge trusted in his mightie hoost, ∧ in his glorious charettes.

So in þe; twolft yeare of his raigne it happened, that Nabuchodonosor þe; kynge of the Assirians (which raigned in the greate cite of Niniue) fought agaynst Arphaxat, and ouercame h&ibar; in þe; greate felde called Ragau, besyde Euphrates and Tigris and Iadason in the felde of Erioth the kinge of the Elikes.

B    ^noteThen was the kyngdome of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his hert was lift vp: and he sent vnto all them that dwelt in Celicia, in Damascus, in Libanus, and vnto the Heithen that dwelt in Carmel and Cedar, and to soch as dwelt in Galile in the greate felde of E&esset;drel&obar;, to all them that were in Samaria, and beyonde the water of Iordane vnto Ierusalem and the whole londe of Iesse vnto the mountaynes of Ethiopia. Vnto all the se dyd Nabuchodonosor the kynge of þe; Assirians sende messaungers. But they all &wt; one consent wolde not agree vnto him, and sent the messaungers agayne emptie, and put th&ebar; awaye without honoure. Then Nabuchodonosor the kynge toke indignaci&obar; at all those londes, and sware by his trone ∧ by his kyngdome, that he wolde be auenged of all these countrees.

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