TRANSPORT OF TIMBER FOR SARGON'S PALACE.
(The God Ea, represented in the lower left-hand corner as half man, half fish, escorts the fleet.)
[1] Isaiah 13, 19-22; 31, 8-9. Note.—This is the A. V. version. It should read:
The Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not a man's,
And a sword, not a human one, shall devour him.
[And he shall flee from the face of the sword,
And his brave ones shall become tributary,
And his rock he will run by in terror,
And his princes in fright shall abandon their flag.]
The destruction is to be supernatural, according to Isaiah. The lines in brackets are probably a later addition.—(Craig.)
[2] Sherley: His Relation of His Travels Into Persia.
[3] Rogers: Hist. of Babylonia and Assyria, 154.
[4] Loftus: Travels and Researches in Chaldea and Susiana.