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Joel iii. 4 ff. On the date of Joel, supra, p. 260, n. 2. De Wette-Schrader, "Einleitung," s. 454. According to the data established above, the minority of Joash falls between 837 and 825 B.C.

551

The older Zechariah ix. 3, and De Wette-Schrader, "Einleitung," s. 480.

552

Vol. i. p. 314.

553

Vol. i. p. 314.

554

Ezekiel xxvii.

555

Ménant, "Ann." pp. 71, 72, 73.

556

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 82.

557

Ménant, loc. cit. pp. 90, 91.

558

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 84.

559

Ménant, p. 86.

560

E. Schrader. "K. A. T." s. 66, 67.

561

Schrader, loc. cit. s. 20, 21.

562

"Records of the Past," 3, 79.

563

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 89.

564

Ménant, p. 93.

565

G. Rawlinson, "Monarch." 22, 94.

566

G. Rawlinson, "Monarch." 12, 340.

567

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 67.

568

G. Rawlinson, "Monarch." 12, 319; 22, 97.

569

G. Smith, "Discov." pp. 91, 141, 252.

570

Sayce, "Records of the Past," pp. 94, 95.

571

According to the inscription of Kurkh in the year 856; according to the obelisk 854 B.C.

572

Ménant, "Ann." p. 107.

573

Bin-hidri is read by E. Schrader and others. Rimmon-hidri by Sayce. As the god Bin was also called Rimmon, the ideogram of the name may be read one way or the other. The Books of the Kings call the contemporary of Ahab, Benhadad. For farther information, see p. 247, note.

574

Sayce, "Records," 3, 100.

575

E. Schrader, "Keilinschriften und A. T." s. 94 ff., 101, 102; Ménant, loc. cit. pp. 99, 113.

576

Ménant, "Ann." p. 115.

577

Vol. i. 257. Ménant, "Babyl." p. 135.

578

Inscriptions on the bulls in Ménant, "Ann." p. 114.

579

E. Schrader, loc. cit. s. 103; above, p. 251.

580

Communication from E. Schrader; cf. Deuteron. iii. 9.

581

E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 106, 107.

582

Cf. above, p. 257.

583

Inscription of the obelisk and the bulls in Ménant, "Ann." 99, 114.

584

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 101.

585

Ménant, p. 101.

586

Ménant, p. 104.

587

Sayce reads Guzan.

588

According to a communication from E. Schrader, Marduk-habal-assur ought to be read, not Marduk-habal-iddin.

589

Oppert, "Memoires de l'Acad. d. inscript." 1869, 1, 513; Sayce, "Records of the Past," 5, 42.

590

Sayce, "Records of the Past," 3, 88, 89, 90, 91, 99.

591

"Anab." 3, 4, 7-9.

592

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 96.

593

The reading is uncertain.

594

Oppert, "Empires," pp. 127, 128; G. Rawlinson, "Monarch." 22, p. 115, n. 8; Ménant, loc. cit. p. 124.

595

E. Schrader, loc. cit. s. 111, 112.

596

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 127; cf. G. Rawlinson, 22, 117.

597

Oppert et Ménant, "Documents juridiques," pp. 146-148.

598

G. Smith, "Discov." p. 389; Oppert et Ménant, loc. cit. p. 342.