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.
6 And there came unto him all they that dwelt in the hill country, and all that dwelt by Euphra´tes, and Tigris, and Hydas´pes, and the plain of Ar´i-och the king of the E´lamites, and very many nations of the sons of Chalde´ans, assembled themselves to the battle.
7 Then Nebuchadnez´zar king of the Assyrians sent unto all that dwelt in Persia, and to all that dwelt westward, and to those that dwelt in Cili´cia, and Damascus, and Lebanon, and Antilebanon, and to all that dwelt upon the sea coast,
8 and to those among the nations that were of Carmel, and Gil´e-ad, and the higher Galilee, and the great plain of Esdra-e´lon,