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.
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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.
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He built towers at the gates one hundred fifty feet high, with foundations that were ninety feet wide.
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He made its gates one hundred five feet high and sixty feet wide so that his mighty armies could march out in formation.
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In those days King Nebuchadnezzar fought against King Arphaxad in the great plain that is on the border with Ragau.
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And many people joined him—everyone who lived in the highlands, everyone who lived along the Euphrates, the Tigris, the Hydaspes, and on the plain of Arioch, king of the Elymeans. Many nations joined forces with the Assyrians.[a]