Judith 1:1-3

Common English Bible

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. 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.