In the [378] end of the Reign of _Josiah_, _Anno Nabonass._ 139, _Pharaoh Nechoh_, the successor of _Psammitichus_, came with a great army out of _Egypt_ against the King of _Assyria_, and being denied passage through _Judæa_, beat the _Jews_ at _Megiddo_ or _Magdolus_ before _Egypt_, slew _Josiah_ their King, marched to _Carchemish_ or _Circutium_, a town of _Mesopotamia_ upon _Euphrates_, and took it, possest himself of the cities of _Syria_, sent for _Jehoahaz_ the new King of _Judah_ to _Riblah_ or _Antioch_, deposed him there, made _Jehojakim_ King in the room of _Josiah_, and put the Kingdom of _Judah_ to tribute: but the King of _Assyria_ being in the mean time besieged and subdued, and _Nineveh_ destroyed by _Assuerus_ King of the _Medes_, and _Nebuchadnezzar_ King of _Babylon_, and the conquerors being thereby entitled to the countries belonging to the King of _Assyria_, they led their victorious armies against the King of _Egypt_ who had seized part of them. For _Nebuchadnezzar_, assisted [379] by _Astibares_, that is, by _Astivares_, _Assuerus_, _Acksweres_, _Axeres_, or _Cy-Axeres_, King of the _Medes_, in the [380] third year of _Jehoiakim_, came with an army of _Babylonians_, _Medes_, _Syrians_, _Moabites_ and _Ammonites_, to the number of 10000 chariots, and 180000 foot, and 120000 horse, and laid waste _Samaria_, _Galilee_, _Scythopolis_, and the _Jews_ in _Galaaditis_, and besieged _Jerusalem_, and took King _Jehoiakim_ alive, and [381] bound him in chains for a time, and carried to _Babylon_ _Daniel_ and others of the people, and part of what Gold and Silver and Brass they found in the Temple: and in [382] the fourth year of _Jehoiakim_, which was the twentieth of _Nabopolassar_, they routed the army of _Pharaoh Nechoh_ at _Carchemish_, and by pursuing the war took from the King of _Egypt_ whatever pertained to him from the river of _Egypt_ to the river of _Euphrates_. This King of _Egypt_ is called by _Berosus_, [383] the _Satrapa_ of _Egypt_, _Cœle-Syria_, and _Phœnicia_; and this victory over him put an end to his Reign in _Cœle-Syria_ and _Phœnicia_, which he had newly invaded, and gave a beginning to the Reign of _Nebuchadnezzar_ there: and by the conquests over _Assyria_ and _Syria_ the small Kingdom of _Babylon_ was erected into a potent Empire.