Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Hammurabi

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Last updated on October 27, 2024.
Hammurabi

Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Babylonian dynasty of the Amorite tribe, reigning from c. 1792 BC to c. 1750 BC. He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit, who abdicated due to failing health. During his reign, he conquered Elam and the city-states of Larsa, Eshnunna, and Mari. He ousted Ishme-Dagan I, the king of Assyria, and forced his son Mut-Ashkur to pay tribute, bringing almost all of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule.

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.
if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder. — © Hammurabi
if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.
Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled
I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.
If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
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