THE 
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No. 192.] | 
DECEMBER 1, 
MAGAZINE, 
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1809. C5 nen 
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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sre, 
HE following article was lately 
published at Calcutta, ina miscel- 
laneous work, by Francis Gladwin, esq. 
which present is extremely rare in 
this country,, [I have no doubt it will 
please many of your readers, as it con- 
tains the Persian and Oriental traditions 
respecting that monarch, who, in Serip- 
ture, is called Artaverxes, (Ezra, iv. 
7, &c.) He is styled, by the Eastern 
historians, Bahman;, also..Avdeshir de- 
razdest ; which answers to the Latin 
Artarerxes Longimanus, or the Long- 
armed, atitie bestowed on account of the 
great extent of his dominions, which 
contained one hundred and twenty and 
seyen provinces, from India unto Ethi- 
opia. (Esther xvi.) The articie is trans- 
lated from an_ historical work, originally 
written in Arabic, by wa celebrated au- 
thor, surnamed, from the. place of- his 
birth, Tebry, who died at Bagdad, in the 
year of the Mohammedan Hejira, 310, 
of the Christian era, 923. 
Your's, be. 
B. B. 
\ 
The WisTORY of the REIGN of BAHMAN, 
and of the SECOND DESOLATION of 
JERUSALEM ; by Persian and Oriental 
Writers. 
« When Bahman, the son of Isfen- 
diar, succeeded his grandfather Gusa- 
taso, (or Darius Hystaspes,) and reigned 
at Balkh, he sent heralds into every . 
country, ‘and received tokens of submis- 
sion ‘from all nations, except the 
cliiidren of Israel, who had increased 
exceedingly, and had placed over them- 
selves aking. This prince, from. excess 
of arrogance and presuinption, slew the 
heraid, whom Bahman had sent to Sy- 
ria asd Jerusalem. Therage of Bahman 
being thereby kindled, 
Bukitnasr (Nebuchadnezzar,) whorn he~ 
reinei. 1 in the government of Chaldea 
and Syria, with all the other lands over 
wh. he had before borne sway. And 
he c manded him, saying, ‘Collect as~ 
Keany ops as you may think necessary, 
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and go and destroy again Jerusalem, as 
completely as you did before.’ And 
Bahman sent along with Bukhtnusr three 
wise men, or counsellors, one named 
.Darius, (probably Darius the Mede) 
who was the son of a ruler. paras 
called Koreish, the son of Unkiwan; and 
the third was Abasuerus, the son of 
Keerish, the son of Jamasp the Sage. 
‘“ Bukhtnusr marched into Chaldea, 
where he spent a year ir augmenting his 
army, and making the necessary arrange= 
ments for his expedi tion, At that time, 
the territory of Mousul was governed by 
* a descendant of Senacherib, who, when 
Bokbtnusr. was preparing to march 
against Jerusalem, joined him with a 
large force. Bukhtnusr received him 
courteously, and at length gave him the 
command of the advanced army; with 
which he committed great slaughter, 
in all the countries through which he 
passed, in his route to Jerusalem; and 
he carried away into. captivity one hun- 
dred thousand youths, besides men and 
women. Not satisfied with dilapidating 
‘the cities, he covered the ruins with 
earth, He particularly commanded 
every soldier to fill his shield with earth 
of the desert of Syria, and to fling the 
contents on the ruins of Jerusalem. : 
“’ Having thus totally desolated that 
city, he departed for Irak, with the cap- 
tives; amongst whom was the kings 
whom Buleheanse sengto Bahman, after 
having slain his sons with his own hand, 
Bahman commanded the king also to be 
put to death; and in reward of the ser 
vices, of Bukhtnusr, gave him sovereign 
dominion over the territories of Baby- 
lon, and Irak, even unto the borders of 
Ethiopia. W hilst Buk btnusr reigned in 
Chaldea, he mustered the captives, and 
having selected from amongst them, for 
_ his own honourable service, one hundred 
he sent for 
thousand men of the best families, he 
distributed other six thousand. amongst 
his captains. ; 
““ Bukhtnusr reigned forty years, and 
then died; leaving a son named Morduck,’ 
(Evil M- ‘rodach. IT. Kings xxv. 27,) 
becagn eyeeges confirmed in the king- 
oM dom, 
