Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The War between Nebuchadnezzar
and Arphaxad
1 While King Nebuchadnezzar
was ruling over the Assyrians
from his capital city of Nineveh,
King Arphaxad ruled over the
Medes from his capital city of Ecbatana.
2 Around Ecbatana King Arphaxad
built a wall 105 feet high and
75 feet thick of cut stones; each
stone was 4 1/2 feet thick and 9 feet
long.
3 At each gate he built a tower
150 feet high, with a foundation 90
feet thick.
4 Each gateway was 105
feet high and 60 feet wide—wide
enough for his whole army to march
through, with the infantry in formation.
5 In the twelfth year of his reign
King Nebuchadnezzar went to war
against King Arphaxad in the large
plain around the city of Rages.
6 Many nations joined forces with
King Arphaxad—all the people who
lived in the mountains, those who
lived along the Tigris, Euphrates,
and Hydaspes rivers, as well as
those who lived in the plain ruled by
King Arioch of Elam. Many nations
joined this Chelodite alliance.
7 Then King Nebuchadnezzar of
Assyria sent a message to the Persians
and to the people to the west,
in the regions of Cilicia, Damascus,
Lebanon, Antilebanon, to those
along the coast,
8 and in the regions
of Carmel, Gilead, northern Galilee,
and Jezreel Valley.
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10 The message
also went to the people living in Samaria
and the nearby towns, to
those in the area west of the Jordan
River as far as the cities of Jerusalem,
Bethany, Chelous, and Kadesh,
and to the district of Goshen. The
message was also taken to the Egyptian
cities of Tahpanhes, Rameses,
Tanis, and Memphis, and the district
up the Nile River to the Sudan border.
11 But everyone in this whole region
ignored King Nebuchadnezzar's
appeal and refused to take part
in the war. They thought that he had
no chance of winning the war, so
they were not afraid of him and sent
his messengers back disgraced and
empty-handed.
12 This made Nebuchadnezzar so
furious that he vowed he would risk
his entire kingdom to take revenge
on all those people. He vowed that
he would put to death the entire
population of Cilicia, Damascus,
Syria, Moab, Ammon, Judah, and
Egypt—everyone from the Mediterranean
Sea to the Persian Gulf.
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13 In the seventeenth year of his
reign King Nebuchadnezzar led his
army into battle against King Arphaxad.
He defeated all of Arphaxad's
forces, including his entire cavalry,
and all his charioteers.
14 Then
Nebuchadnezzar occupied all the
towns in the land of Media and advanced
against the city of Ecbatana.
He captured the city's towers, looted
its markets, and made that beautiful
city a ruin.
15 He captured King Arphaxad
in the mountains around
Rages and killed him. After Arphaxad's
death,
16 Nebuchadnezzar and
his entire army returned to Nineveh
with all the loot taken in battle.
There they relaxed and feasted for
four months.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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