When Anu the Sublime1 …and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed2 the fate of the land, …founded an everlasting kingdom in it,… [they] called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted3 prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy e wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the [people] and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind summary