Judith 1:1

Nebuchadnezzar goes to war against Arphaxad

1 It was the twelfth year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh. In those days, Arphaxad ruled the Medes in Ecbatana.

Judith 1:1 In-Context

1 It was the twelfth year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh. In those days, Arphaxad ruled the Medes in Ecbatana.

2 Arphaxad built walls around Ecbatana from cut stones that measured four and a half feet wide and nine feet long. The walls he built were one hundred five feet high and seventy-five feet wide.

3 He built towers at the gates one hundred fifty feet high, with foundations that were ninety feet wide.

4 He made its gates one hundred five feet high and sixty feet wide so that his mighty armies could march out in formation.

5 In those days King Nebuchadnezzar fought against King Arphaxad in the great plain that is on the border with Ragau.