Judith 1:1–3
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1In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh, in the days of Arphaxad, who ruled over the Medes in Ecbatana— 2he is the king who built walls about Ecbatana with hewn stones three cubits thick and six cubits long; he made the walls seventy cubits high and fifty cubits wide; 3at the gates he built towers a hundred cubits high and sixty cubits wide at the foundations;
Copyright 1965, 1966 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America.