[55] Isaiah, xxxvii. 2 Kings, xix. 9.
[56] 2 Kings, xviii. 13.; and compare Isaiah, xxxvi. 1.
[57] “And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah, king of Judah, 300 talents of silver and 30 talents of gold.” (2 Kings, xviii. 14.)
[58] Shalmaneser, who made war against Hosea, and who is generally supposed to have carried away the ten tribes from Samaria, although the sacred historian does not distinctly say so (2 Kings, xvii.), is identified by general consent with Sargon, who sent his general against Ashdod (Isaiah, xx.).
[60] Xenophon Cyrop. lvii. c. 3. Quintus Curtius, liii. c. 3.
[61] Botta’s Monumens de Ninive, Plate 146.
[62] 2 Kings, xviii. 14. Isaiah xxxvi. 2. From 2 Kings, xix. 8., and Isaiah, xxxvii. 8., we may infer that the city soon yielded.
[63] Isaiah, iii. 18—24. &c. (See translation by the Rev. J. Jones.) This description of the various articles of dress worn by the Jewish women is exceedingly interesting. Most of the ornaments enumerated, probably indeed the whole of them, if we were acquainted with the exact meaning of the Hebrew words, are still to be traced in the costumes of Eastern women inhabiting the same country. Many appear to be mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions amongst objects of tribute and of spoil brought to the king. See also Ezekiel xvi. 10—14. for an account of the dress of the Jewish women.
[64] M. Botta also found, at Khorsabad, the ashes of string in lumps of clay impressed with a seal, without being aware of their origin.