[137] See my article “Weights and Measures” in “Murray’s Bible Dictionary,” 1908, p. 944, for details.
[138] Taylor cylinder; 2 Kings xviii. 17.
[139] 2 Kings, xviii. 14. The Assyrian reads: Sasu kima iṣṣuri kuuppi kirib ali Urusalimmu alu sarrutisu esir-su: khalsi ilisu urakisma, aṣie abulli ali-su utirra ikkibus, etc.
[140] 2 Chron. xxxiii. 14.
[141] 2 Chron. xvi. 14, xxvi. 23, xxviii. 27, xxxiii. 20; Neh. iii. 16. See for the suggested tomb of David my “Handbook to the Bible,” 1879 (3rd edit. 1882, p. 341). Rev. Selah Merrill has recently adopted this suggestion: “Anct. Jer.,” 1908, p. 258.
[142] 2 Chron. xxxii. 33; Tosiphta, Baba Bathra, ch. i.; Josephus, “Ant.,” VII. xv. 3, XIII. viii. 4, XVI. vii. 1. The kings elsewhere buried were Asa, Jehoram, Uzziah, Ahaziah, Joash, Ahaz, and Manasseh. See Acts ii. 29. The Mishnah (Baba Bathra, ii. 9) says that tombs should be 50 cubits outside the city, but the Tosiphta says that those of the family of David were inside it.
[143] “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., 1883, pp. 319–31.
[144] This pit is too short to have been a grave.
[145] 2 Chron. xxvi. 23. This tomb is again noticed in chap. x.
[146] Hilprecht, “Nippur Memoir,” I. i. plate 32.