[[520]] 2 Kings, xvii, 3-5.
[[521]] Isaiah, xx, 1.
[[522]] 2 Kings, xvii, 6.
[[523]] 2 Kings, xvii, 16-41.
[[524]] The people carried away would not be the whole of the inhabitants--only, one would suppose, the more important personages, enough to make up the number 27,290 given above.
[[525]] Passing of the Empires, pp. 200-1.
[[526]] Those who, like Breasted, identify "Piru of Mutsri" with "Pharaoh of Egypt" adopt the view that Bocchoris of Sais paid tribute to Sargon. Piru, however, is subsequently referred to with two Arabian kings as tribute payers to Sargon apparently after Lower Egypt had come under the sway of Shabaka, the first king of the Ethiopian or Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
[[527]] Isaiah, xx, 2-5.
[[528]] Commander-in-chief.
[[529]] Isaiah, xx, 1.