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a friend, and a comrade, he went at his side, The weapons of his vast army, whose numbers—as waters of a river— could not be known, were marshalled in order, spread at his side. Without fighting, or battle, Marduk caused him to enter Babylonia. He spared his city Babylon. He gave to his hand, from a hiding place, Nabo-nahid, who revered him not.” The account, by Nabo-nahid himself, of the earlier history may be contrasted: ‘Marduk communed with me, Nabo-nahid, King of Babylon, saying, ‘Come up with thy horses and chariots, and build the walls of the glorious temple, and raise up in it the throne of Sinu the great lord’ I spoke reverently to the lord of gods: ‘This temple will I build.