In the seventeenth year he drew up his forces against King Arphaxad and won the day: he overturned Arphaxad’s entire army, all his cavalry, and every one of his chariots.
In context
11But in all those lands the inhabitants treated the word of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians as worthless. They would not join him for the war; they had no fear of him, for in their eyes he was one man and no more. They sent his messengers back empty-handed, with shame on their faces. 12At this Nebuchadnezzar flew into a rage against that whole region, and he swore by his throne and his kingdom that he would take vengeance on every border of Cilicia, of Damascus, and of Syria, and put to the sword every inhabitant of the land of Moab, the Ammonites, all Judea, and everyone in Egypt, as far as the shores of the two seas. 13In the seventeenth year he drew up his forces against King Arphaxad and won the day: he overturned Arphaxad’s entire army, all his cavalry, and every one of his chariots. 14He took possession of his cities and pressed on to Ecbatana, seized its towers, looted its streets, and turned its splendor into disgrace. 15He caught Arphaxad himself in the mountains of Ragau, ran him through with his javelins, and made an end of him that very day.
