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A33322	The life & death of Nebuchadnezzar, the Great, the first founder of the Babylonian Empire, represented by the golden head of that image, Dan. 2. 32., and by the lion with eagles wings, Dan. 7. 4. as also of Cyrus, the Great, the first founder of the Empire of the Medes and Persians, represented by the breast, and arms of silver in that image, Dan. 2. 32., and by a bear, Dan. 7. by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1664 (1664)	Wing C4530; ESTC R15232	35,680	56

and this may seem the more probable because Craesus was his Grandmothers Brother and it s very likely that neerness of Alliance might withhold Cyrus if he had been vicious which he was not from so cruell a purpose as to have burnt him alive When Cyrus afterwards passed with his Army over Araves into Seythia he left Craesus to be a companion and counseller to his Son Cambyses whom he made Governour over his Empire in his absence with whom he lived all-the Reign of Cyrus and did afterwards accompany Cambyses in his Expedition into Egypt where he hardly escaped his Tyrannous hands At this time the Races of three of the greatest Kings in that part of the World came to an end to wit of the Babylonians Medians and Lydians in Balthasar Xiaxares or Darius Medus and Craesus After this Lydian War ensued the great Conquest of Babylon which gave unto Cyrus an Empire so large and mighty that he was justly reputed the greatest Monarch then living upon the Earth How long time the preparations for this great action took up is uncertain onely it seems that ten whole years did pass between his taking of those two Cities of Sardis and Babylon which time was not wholly spent in providing for the Assyrian War but much of it in setling the Estates which he had already purchased Ctesias also tells us that during this time Cyrus invaded Scythia and being victorious over that Nation he took Amorges their King Prisoner But being in a second Battel overthrown by Sparetha the Wife of Amorges himself was taken Prisoner and so one King was released for the other Gobrias about this time a Nobleman whose onely Son the King of Babylon in his Fathers life time had in a hunting match villainously slain together with his Friends revolted to Cyrus It s very probable also that no small part of those troubles which sprang up in the lower Asia grew soon after Cyrus his departure with his Victorious Army before the Conquest was fully established For after Cyrus was returned out of Asia the less many Nations which were formerly Conquered by Craesus and now by Cyrus revolted from him Against whom he imployed Pactias and then Harpagus who first reduced the Phocians under their former Obedience and then the rest of the Greeks that inhabited Asia the less as the Jonians Carians Aeolians and Lycians who very resolutely according to the strength they had defended themselyes But in the attempt upon Babylon it self it s not to be questioned but Cyrus imployed all his Forces having taken order beforehand that nothing should be able to divert him or to raise that Seige or to frustrate that work upon which he did set all his rest And great reason there was that he should improve all his Policy and strength unto the taking of that City which besides the Fame and reputation that it held as being the Head of an Empire which depended thereupon was so strongly fortified with a trebble Wall of great heigth and surrounded with the waters of Euphrates that were unfordable and so plentifully Victualled for many years that the Inhabitants were not only free from fear and doubt of their estate but through their Confidence they derided and despised all the Projects and power of their Besiegers For not long before Nicotris the Mother of Belshazzar a witty and active Woman foreseeing the storm that was ready to fall upon Babylon from the Medes to hinder their passing the River by Boats into Babylon She turned the River Euphrates which before ran with a strait and swift course drawing it through many winding Channels which she had cut for that purpose whereby she made it to run more slowly than formerly it did and then she raised a huge Dam upon each side of the River and up the River from the City-ward she digged a vast Pond which was every way three or four hundred Furlongs wide into which she turned the River thereby leaving the old Channel of the River dry which done she fell to work and fenced the Banks within the City with Brick-walls and raised the Water-Gates answerable in every point to the rest of the Walls which were made on the farther side of the Channel round about the City She built also a stately and Magnificent Bridge of Stone in the midst of the City which joyned to the Kings Houses that stood on each side the River and having finished all her Works and Fortifications she turned the River out of the Pond into its right Channell again And now came Cyrus to invade the Country of Babylon and appeared before the Walls of the City and there challenged the King to a Duell or single Combat but he refused it At this time Gadatas a Noble man of Babylon whom Belshazzar had gelt upon a jealousie that he had of him with his Wife fell over to Cyrus in revenge whereof the Babylonians sallied out and fell upon his Lands but Cyrus set upon them and routed them At which time the Cadusii whom Cyrus had appointed to bring up the rear of his Army unknown to Cyrus set upon a Country lying neer to the City but the King of Babylon falling out upon them cut them all off Yet Cyrus quickly revenged the Death of his men and then came to an agreement with Belshazzar to hold truce with the Ploughmen on both sides and the War to go on between the Souldiers onely After which passing beyond the City he took in three of their Forts and so returned into the confines of Assyria and Media and thither upon his invitation came his uncle Cyaxares and was by him honourably received and intertained in a Pavilion that had been the King of Assyrias and Winter now approaching they entred into consulatation to provide things necessary to maintain the Siege The only hope of Cyrus with his Medes and Persians who despaired of carrying by assault a City so well and strongly fortified and manned was in cuting off all supplies of victuals and others necessaries Whereof though the Town was said to be stored sufficiently for more than twenty years yet might it well be imagined that amongst such a World of People as dwelt within those Walls one great want or other would soon appear amongst them and vanquish the resolution of that unwarlike multitude Yet in expecting that success of this course the Besiegers were likely to endure much hardship and travel and that all in vain if they did not keep strict watch and sure guards upon all the Avenues and Quarters of it Which that he might the better do he caused presently a vast trench both for breadth and depth to be cast round about the Walls of the City casting the earth ever towards his own Army and made store of Bulworks all along upon it for his Guards to be upon and then dividing his whole Army into twelve parts he ordered that each of them should Watch his Moneth by turn And yet this was a very

the Kingdoms of the Earth and hath charged me to build him an House at Jerusalem which is in Judah Who is there among you of all his People Let his God be with him and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and build the House of the Lord God of Israel He is God which is at Jerusalem And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth let the men of his place help him with Silver and with Gold and with goods and with Beasts besides the free-will Offering for the House of God that is in Jerusalem Ezra 1 2 3 4. He also brought forth and restored the Vessels of the House of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of the Temple at Jerusalem and had put them into the House of his gods These were brought forth and numbred unto Sheshbazzar the Prince of Judah and this is the number of them Thirty Charges of Gold a thousand Chargers of Silver nine and twenty Knives thirty Basins of Gold Silver Basins of a second sort four hundred and ten and of other vessels a thousand All the vessels of Gold and Silver were five thousand and four hundred The number of Jews that then returned out of Chaldea under their Leader Zorobabel the Son of Salathiel and Nephew to King Jeconias and Joshua the Son of Josedech the High Priest were about fifty thousand And as soon as they arrived at Jerusalem they built an Altar to the living God and sacrificed thereon according to their Law and afterwards bethought themselves how to prepare materials for the building of the Temple Cyrus having set all things in order at Babylon returned through Media into Persia to his Father Cambyses and his Mother Mandanes who were yet living and from thence returning again into Media he married the only Daughter and Heir of Cyaxares and for Dowry had the whole Kingdom of Media given him with her And when the Marriage was finished he presently went his way and took her with him and coming to Babylon from thence he sent Governours into all his Dominions Into Arabia he sent Megabyzus into Phrygia the greater Artacaman into Lydia and Jonia Chrysantas into Caria Adusius into Phrygia Helle spontiaca or the less Pharmichas But into Cilicia Cyprus Paphlagonia he sent no Persians to Govern them because they voluntarily and of their own accord took his part against the King of Babylon yet he caused even them also to pay him Tribute Cyrus having spent one whole year with his Wife in Babylon gathered thither his whole Army consisting of one hundred and twenty Thousand Horse and two Thousand Iron Chariots and six hundred Thousand Footmen and having furnished himself with all necessary provisions he undertook that journey wherein he subdued all the Nations inhabiting from Syria to the Red Sea The time that Cyrus enjoyed in rest and pleasure after these great Victories and the attainment of his Empire is generally agreed upon by all Chronologers to have lasted only seven years In which time he made such Laws and Constitutions as differ little from the Ordinances of all wife Kings that are desirous to establish a Royal power to themselves and their Posterity which are recorded by Xenophon The last War and the end of this Great King Cyrus is diversly written by Historians Herodotus and Justine say That after these Conquests Cyrus invaded the Massagets a very Warlike Nation of the Scythians Governed by Tomyris their Queen and that in an encounter between the Persians and these Northern Nomades Tomyris lost her Army together with her Son Spa●gapises that was the Generall of it In revenge whereof this Queen making new levies of men of War and prosecuting the War against Cyrus in a second sore Battel the Persians were beaten and Cyrus was taken Prisoner and that Tomyris cut off his Head from his Body and threw it into a Bowle of blood using these words Thou that hast all thy time thirsted for blood now drink thy fill and satiate thy self with it This War which Metasthenes calls Tomyrique lasted about six years But more probably this Scythian War was that which is mentioned before which Cyrus made against the Scythians after the Conquest of Lydia according to Ctesias who calleth Tomyris Sparetha and makes the end of it otherwise as you may see before The same Ctesias also recordeth that the last War which Cyrus made was against Amarhaus King of the Derbitians another Nation of the Scythians whom though he overcame in Battel yet there he received a wound whereof he died three days after Strabo also affirmeth that he was buried in his own City of Pasagardes which himself had built and where his Epitaph was to be read in Strabo's time which he saith was this O vir quicunque es undecunque advenis neque enim te adventurum ignoravi Ego sum Cyrus qui Persis Imperium constitui pusillum hoc Terrae quo meum tegitur Corpus mihi ne invideas O thou man whosoever thou art and whensoever thou comest for I was not ignorant that thou shouldst come I am Cyrus that founded the Persian Empire Do not envy unto me this little Earth with which my Body is covered When Alexander the Great returned from his Indian Conquests he visited Pasagardes and caused this Tomb of Cyrus to be opened either upon hope of great Treasure supposed to have been buried with him or upon a desire to honour his dead Body with certain Ceremonies when the Sepulchre was opened there was found nothing in it save an old rotten Target two Scythian Bows and a Sword The Coffin wherein his Body lay Alexander caused to be covered with his own Garment and a Crown of Gold to be set upon it Cyrus finding in himself that he could not long enjoy the World he called unto him his Nobility with his two Sons Cambyses and Smerdis and after a long Oration wherein he assured himself and taught others about the immortality of the Soul and of the punishments and rewards following the ill and good deservings of every man in this life He exhorted his Sons by the strongest Arguments he had to a perpetuall Concord and agreement Many other things he uttered which makes it probable that he received the knowledge of the true God from Daniel whilst he Governed Susa in Persia and that Cyrus himself had read the Prophesie of Isay wherein he was expresly named and by God preordained for the delivery of his People out of Captivity which act of delivering the Jews and of restoring of the holy Temple and the City of Jerusalem was in true consideration the Noblest-work that ever Cyrus performed For in other actions he was an Instrument of Gods Power used for the chastising of many Nations and the establishing of a Government in those parts of the world which yet was not to continue long But herein he had the favour to be an Instrument of