and gave order that the outer walls of the city should be demolished,
because the city had proved very troublesome to him, and cost him a
great deal of pains to take it. He then marched away to Borsippus, to
besiege Nabonnedus; but as Nabonnedus did not sustain the siege, but
delivered himself into his hands, he was at first kindly used by Cyrus,
who gave him Carmania, as a place for him to inhabit in, but sent him
out of Babylonia. Accordingly Nabonnedus spent the rest of his time in
that country, and there died."

21. These accounts agree with the true histories in our books; for in
them it is written that Nebuchadnezzar, in the eighteenth year of
his reign, laid our temple desolate, and so it lay in that state of
obscurity for fifty years; but that in the second year of the reign of
Cyrus its foundations were laid, and it was finished again in the second
year of Darius. I will now add the records of the Phoenicians; for it
will not be superfluous to give the reader demonstrations more than
enough on this occasion. In them we have this enumeration of the times
of their several kings: "Nabuchodonosor besieged Tyre for thirteen years
in the days of Ithobal, their king; after him reigned Baal, ten years;
after him were judges appointed, who judged the people: Ecnibalus, the
son of Baslacus, two months; Chelbes, the son of Abdeus, ten months;
Abbar, the high priest, three months; Mitgonus and Gerastratus, the sons
of Abdelemus, were judges six years; after whom Balatorus reigned one
year; after his death they sent and fetched Merbalus from Babylon, who
reigned four years; after his death they sent for his brother Hirom, who
reigned twenty years. Under his reign Cyrus became king of Persia." So
that the whole interval is fifty-four years besides three months; for
in the seventh year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar he began to besiege
Tyre, and Cyrus the Persian took the kingdom in the fourteenth year of
Hirom. So that the records of the Chaldeans and Tyrians agree with our
writings about this temple; and the testimonies here produced are an
indisputable and undeniable attestation to the antiquity of our nation.
And I suppose that what I have already said may be sufficient to such as
are not very contentious.

22. But now it is proper to satisfy the inquiry of those that disbelieve
the records of barbarians, and think none but Greeks to be worthy of
credit, and to produce many of these very Greeks who were acquainted
with o