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BABYLON AND PERSIA

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THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAH. 185'' Therefore, thus saith the Lord God : Behold, I will give thelandof Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shallcarry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey ; andit shall be the wages for his army. I have given him the land ofEgypt as his recompense for which he served, because they wroughtfor me."But Nebuchadrezzar never invaded Egypt.Though a good general, he was not a conquerorafter the pattern of the Assyrian kings. He was astatesman as well, inclined by preference to works ofpeace, and gave the most unslackening attention tothe establishment of his home-rule at Babylon onbroad and solid bases an object which could be bestachieved by a continuous personal residence in hisown native state, Chaldea, and its capitalBabylon.War, therefore, was always with him a matter ofnecessity, not of choice, and he strove to ensure gen¬eral peace even by acting as peacemaker between hisneighbors.

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