The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . land of Gutium guarded thegates of Esagila. No arms had been stored in Esa-gila and the sacred precincts, nor had any weaponsentered them. In the month Marchesvan (October),on the third day, Cyrus entered Babylon, the wallssubmitted before him. Peace for the city he estab-lished. Cyrus spake peace to Babylon, to the wholeof it. Gobryas his governor he appointed governorof Babylon. From the month Chislev to the monthAdar (November to February), the gods of the landof Accad, whom Nabonidus had carried to Babylon,returned to th
The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . land of Gutium guarded thegates of Esagila. No arms had been stored in Esa-gila and the sacred precincts, nor had any weaponsentered them. In the month Marchesvan (October),on the third day, Cyrus entered Babylon, the wallssubmitted before him. Peace for the city he estab-lished. Cyrus spake peace to Babylon, to the wholeof it. Gobryas his governor he appointed governorof Babylon. From the month Chislev to the monthAdar (November to February), the gods of the landof Accad, whom Nabonidus had carried to Babylon,returned to their own cities. On the 11th day ofthe month Marchesvan, at night, Gobryas ..... . .the kings wife died. From the twenty-seventh of the month Adar to the third of the monthNisan, there was lamentation in Accad; all the peoplesmote their heads. This remaiikable piece of theroyal annals astonishes us by recording but one bat-tle in the neighborhood of Babylon. That wasfought near Accad, and resulted favorably for Cyrustroops. Thence the way was open into the city of.
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