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"When [[Nabopollasar]] his ([[Nabuchodonosor|Nabuchodonosor's]]) father, heard that the governor, whom he had set over [[Egypt]], and the parts of [[Coelesyria]] and [[Phoenicia]], had revolted, he was unable to put up with his delinquencies any longer, but committed certain parts of his army to his son [[Nabuchodonosor]], who was then but young, and sent him against the rebel: and [[Nabuchodonosor]] fought with him, and conquered him, and reduced the country again under his dominion.  And it happened that his father, [[Nabopollasar]] fell into a distemper at this time, and died in the city of [[Babylon]], after he had reigned twenty-nine years.

"When [[Nabopollasar]] his ([[Nabuchodonosor|Nabuchodonosor's]]) father, heard that the governor, whom he had set over [[Egypt]], and the parts of [[Coelesyria]] and [[Phoenicia]], had revolted, he was unable to put up with his delinquencies any longer, but committed certain parts of his army to his son [[Nabuchodonosor]], who was then but young, and sent him against the rebel: and [[Nabuchodonosor]] fought with him, and conquered him, and reduced the country again under his dominion.  And it happened that his father, [[Nabopollasar]] fell into a distemper at this time, and died in the city of [[Babylon]], after he had reigned twenty-nine years.

"After a short time [[Nabuchodonosor]], receiving the intelligence of his father's death, set the affairs of [[Egypt]] and the other countries, in order and committed the the captives he had taken from the Jews, and [[Phoenicians]], and [[Syrians]], and of the nations belonging to [[Egypt]], to some of his friends, that they might conduct that part of the forces that had on heavy armour, with the rest of his baggage, to Babylonia; where, when he was come, he found that affairs had been well conducted by the [[Chaldeans]], and that the principal person among them had preserved the kingdom from him: accordingly he now obtained possession of all his father's dominions.  And he ordered the captives to be distributed in colonies in the most proper places of Babylonia: and adorned the [[Tower of Babel|temple]] of [[Belus (god)|Belus]], and the other temples, in a sumptuous and pious manner, out of the spoils he had taken in this war.  He also rebuilt the old city, and added other to it on the outside, and so far restored Babylon, that none, who should besiege it afterwards, might have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it: and this he did by building three wals about the inner city, and three about the outer.  Some of these walls he built out of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only.  When he had thus admirably fortified the city with walls, and had magnificently adorned the gates, he added also a new palace to those in which his forefathers had dwelt, adjoining them, but exceeding them in height, and in its great splendor.  It would perhaps require too long a narration, if any one were to describe it: however, as prodigiously large and mag

"After a short time [[Nabuchodonosor]], receiving the intelligence of his father's death, set the affairs of [[Egypt]] and the other countries, in order and committed the the captives he had taken from the Jews, and [[Phoenicians]], and [[Syrians]], and of the nations belonging to [[Egypt]], to some of his friends, that they might conduct that part of the forces that had on heavy armour, with the rest of his baggage, to Babylonia; where, when he was come, he found that affairs had been well conducted by the [[Chaldeans]], and that the principal person among them had preserved the kingdom from him: accordingly he now obtained possession of all his father's dominions.  And he ordered the captives to be distributed in colonies in the most proper places of Babylonia: and adorned the [[Tower of Babel|temple]] of [[Belus (god)|Belus]], and the other temples, in a sumptuous and pious manner, out of the spoils he had taken in this war.  He also rebuilt the old city, and added other to it on the outside, and so far restored Babylon, that none, who should besiege it afterwards, might have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it: and this he did by building three wals about the inner city, and three about the outer.  Some of these walls he built out of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only.  When he had thus admirably fortified the city with walls, and had magnificently adorned the gates, he added also a new palace to those in which his forefathers had dwelt, adjoining them, but exceeding them in height, and in its great splendor.  It would perhaps require too long a narration, if any one were to describe it: however, as prodigiously large and magnificent as it was, it was finished in fifteen days.  In this palace he erected very high walks, supported by stone pillars; and by planting what was called a pensile paradise, and replenishing it with all sorts of trees, he rendered the prospect an exact resemblance of a mountainous country.  This he did to please his queen, because she had been brought up in Media, and was fond of a mountainous situation."

 

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