1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnez´zar, who reigned in Nin´eveh, the great city; in the days of Arphax´ad, which reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana,
2 and built in Ecbatana walls round about of stones hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits:
3 and set the towers thereof upon the gates of it, an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore cubits:
4 and he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen:
5 even in those days king Nebuchadnez´zar made war with king Arphax´ad in the great plain, which is the plain in the borders of Ragau.