Bar Hebraeus’ Chronography The Chaldean (Babylonian) Kings
IV- The Fourth Series, the Chaldean (Babylonian) Kings. NEBUCHADNEZZAR AFTER ZEDEKIAH, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, the CHALDEAN, reigned twenty-four years after he burnt the Temple, and had made the kingdom of the JEWS to come to an end, and before this he had reigned nineteen other years, so that all the years of his kingdom were forty-three years. And once again, for the fifth time, after the burning [of the Temple] he went up and laid siege to TYRE, and he built a bridge of stone [from the mainland] to the city. And the sons of TYRE becoming terrified cast everything ihto the sea and fled, and they...
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