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JUDITH 1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in Nineveh, the great city, in the days of Arphaxad, who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana, 2 and built around Ecbatana walls of hewn stones three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits; 3 and set its towers at its gates, one hundred cubits high, and its breadth in the foundation was sixty cubits; 4 and made its gates, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and their breadth forty cubits, for his mighty army to go out of, and the setting in array of his footmen— 5 even in those days king Nebuchadnezzar made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain. This plain is on the borders of Ragau. 6 There came to meet him all that lived in the hill country, and all that lived by Euphrates, Tigris, and Hydaspes, and in the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymaeans. Many nations of the sons of Chelod assembled themselves to the battle. 7 And Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent to all who lived in Persia, and to all who lived westward, to those who lived in Cilicia, Damascus, Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all who lived along the sea coast, 8 and to those amongst the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon, 9 and to all who were in Samaria and its cities, and beyond Jordan to Jerusalem, Betane, Chellus, Kadesh, the river of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Rameses, and all the land of Goshen, 10 until you come above Tanis and Memphis, and to all that lived in Egypt, until you come to the borders of Ethiopia. 11 All those who lived in all the land made light of the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and didn’t go with him to the war; for they were not afraid of him, but he was before them as one man. They turned away his messengers from their presence without effect, and with disgrace. 12 And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas. 13 And he set the battle in array with his army against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year; and he prevailed in his battle, and turned to flight all the army of Arphaxad, with all his horses and all his chariots. 14 He became master of his cities, and he came even to Ecbatana, and took the towers, plundered its streets, and turned its beauty into shame. 15 He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day. 16 He returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his company of sundry nations, an exceedingly great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease and banqueted, he and his army, for one hundred and twenty days.
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Chapter 1 1 Bilo je to dvanaeste godine kraljevanja Nabukodonozora, kralja Asiraca, koji vladaše u velikom gradu Ninivi. U to je vrijeme Arfaksad vladao nad Medijcima u Ekbatani. 2On sagradi naokolo Ekbatane zidove od tesana i èetverouglasta kamena, široka tri lakta i dugaèka šest lakata; podigao je bedeme sedamdeset lakata u visinu i pedeset lakata u širinu. 3Do vrata gradskih podiže kule stotinu lakata visoke, s temeljima koji su bili šezdeset lakata široki. 4Vrata koja bijaše napravio uzdizahu se sedamdeset lakata u visinu, a široka bijahu èetrdeset lakata, kako bi mogla kroz njih izaæi golema vojska s povorkom pješaka. 5U to vrijeme kralj Nabukodonozor vojevaše s kraljem Arfaksadom u velikoj ravnici koja se proteže na podruèju Ragaua. 6Uza nj se svrstaše svi oni koji su obitavali u planinskim predjelima, svi oni koji su prebivali do obala Eufrata, Tigrisa i Hidaspa, a tako i stanovnici ravnice Arioha, kralja elimskoga: mnogo je dakle bilo ljudstva koje se poredalo u redove naroda keleudskog. 7Nabukodonozor, kralj Asiraca, uputi poruku svim stanovnicima Perzije, svima onima koji življahu na zapadu, stanovnicima Cilicije, Damaska, Libanona i Antilibanona i svim stanovnicima morske obale, 8narodima Karmela, Gileada, Gornje Galileje i prostrane ravnice Ezdrelona, 9svima onima koji prebivahu u Samariji i njezinim gradovima, u Transjordaniji sve do Jeruzalema, Batane, Kelusa, Kadeša, Egipatske rijeke, Tafnesa, Ramsesa i po svemu podruèju Gešema, 10sve do onkraj Tanisa i Memfisa, najposlije svima stanovnicima Egipta sve do granice Etiopije. 11Ali stanovnici svake od tih pokrajina narugaše se poruci Nabukodonozora, kralja Asiraca, i ne okupiše se oko njega da bi uza nj vojevali. Nisu ga se bojali, jer on za njih bijaše obièan èovjek. Otposlaše praznih ruku glasnike njegove, ne iskazavši im poèasti. 12Tada se Nabukodonozor užasno razbjesni protiv svih tih podruèja i zakle se svojim prijestoljem i svojim kraljevstvom da æe im se osvetiti i maèem opustošiti sve pokrajine Cilicije, Damaska, Sirije, uništiti sve stanovnike koji življahu na podruèju Moaba, plemena Amona, èitave Judeje i sve žitelje Egipta sve do obaju mora. 13Godine sedamnaeste stade sa svojom vojskom protiv kralja Arfaksada, potuèe ga u borbi, rasprši mu svu vojsku, konjaništvo i kola, 14zagospodari njegovim gradovima, doprije do Ekbatane, zauze kule, opljaèka trgovišta, svede sjaj njegov na sprdnju. 15Arfaksada uhvati u planinama Ragaua, dade ga izbosti sulicama i tako ga se riješi zauvijek. 16Vrati se tada u Ninivu sa svom svojom vojskom i s golemim mnoštvom ratnika što im se bijahu pridružili. Tu se u miru i spokojstvu on i njegova vojska predadoše besposlici i uživanju stotinu i dvadeset dana.