 And they thought the new king would either be killed, or he had claimants to the throne, or he was inexperienced, and what could a 21-year-old do anyway? And he besieged the city. And then after three days of warning, they thought that the seven-gated thieves was legendary for its bastions. He broke into the city. He killed everybody in battle that he could, 6,000. He enslaved probably 20,000.