[536]. Herod. i. 181.
[537]. See Ball, The India House Inscription of Nebuchadrezzar in the Records of the Past, new ser., iii. pp. 104-123.
[538]. 1 Kings viii. 2. In vi. 38, however, it is said that the work was not completed until the eighth month of the year, the Phœnician Bul.
[539]. To these the Chronicler adds ‘Beth-horon the Upper’ (2 Chron. viii. 5). Possibly the two Beth-horons were fortified in connection with the reservoirs which Solomon is supposed to have constructed in order to supply Jerusalem with water. Baalath was, strictly speaking, in Dan (Josh. xix. 44). The Latin form Palmyra comes from Tadmor by assimilation to palma, ‘a palm.’ The change of d to l in Latin words is familiar to etymologists, and the initial p for t is paralleled by pavo, ‘a peacock,’ from the Greek ταὧς (Persian tâwûs). One of the Septuagint MSS. has Thermath for Tadmor, but in the ordinary text the whole passage is omitted.
[540]. Thus ‘Beth-horon the Upper’ is omitted in the verse, and the words ‘in the land’ (of Judah) have been transposed to the end of it, instead of coming as they should after ‘Baalath.’
[541]. Records of the Past, new ser., i. p. 115.
[542]. 1 Kings iv. 33. That books are meant, and not lectures such as were given to his subjects by the Egyptian king Khu-n-Aten, seems evident from verse 32, compared with Prov. xxv. 1.
[543]. ‘The enemies of Assur,’ says Assur-natsir-pal, he ‘has combated to their furthest bounds above and below’ (Records of the Past, new ser., ii. p. 136); ‘Countries, mountains, fortresses, and kinglets, the enemies of Assur, I have conquered,’ says Tiglath-pileser I. (Records of the Past, new ser., i. p. 94).
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