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.