[59] Araunah (2 Sam. xxiv. 16, 20); Heb. Aranieh in ver. 18; Ornan (1 Chr. xxi. 15–28); no doubt originally written with the signs UR-AN-EN, which would read either Ur-ena or Ur-nun; in LXX. always Orna.
[60] These synchronisms show that the approximate dates given by Brugsch for Amenophis III. and IV. are correct. The recent discoveries of Dr. H. Winckler in Cappadocia also prove that Rameses II. was ruling about 1330 B. C., as Brugsch supposed. The later dates given by some Egyptologists are based on a fallacious astronomical calculation, and do not agree with the known Assyrian and Babylonian dates.
[61] Taylor cylinder text. See also my “Tell Amarna Tablets,” 2nd edit. 1898, pp. 117–20, 193.
[62] “Tell Amarna Tablets,” pp. 8, 14, 187, 193, 200, 202, 210; Deutschen Orient Gesellschaft, No. 35, 1908, discoveries of Dr. H. Winckler, pp. 33–6.
[63] “Amarna Tablets,” pp. 170, 188.
[64] The signs used are those for “man,” “good,” and “do,” variously rendered Arad-Khi-ba and ’Abd-Ṭobba, but perhaps better ’Abd-ṣadaḳ, “servant of the just.” Cf. Melchi-ṣedeḳ (“my king is just”), Adoni-ṣedeḳ, “my lord is just.” See “Tell Amarna Tablets,” pp. 139–51.
[65] Lepsius, “Letters from Egypt,” 1844, English trans. 1853, pp. 484 seq.
[66] Gen. xlvii. 11; Exod. i. 11.
[67] Josh. x. 3. See “Tell Amarna Tablets,” p. 137, and Josh. x. 33.
[68] Ruth i. 2.