with copper picks (and) I made a good way for the passage of my chariots and troops. I crossed the Tigris (and) I conquered Šerešše, their stronghold. I laid out in the midst of the battle (the corpses of) their men-at-arms like grain heaps. I made their blood flow in the watercourses and the plains of the mountains. Anyone who has read the book of Joshua, or for that matter almost any other biblical book, will quickly note a number of similarities between these three quoted texts and the biblical