[587] Meyer, Gesch. d. Alt., 331; Kittel, ii. 221; Schrader, Keilinschr., i. 165.
[588] נְבוּרָתֹו (1 Kings xvi. 27).
[589] It is needless in each separate case to enter into the chronological minutiæ about which the historian is little solicitous. A table of the chronology so far as it can be ascertained is furnished, infra.
[590] 1 Kings xx. 5; 2 Kings x. 7.
[591] Hitzig thinks that Psalm xlv. was an epithalamium on this occasion, from the mention of "ivory palaces" and "the daughter of Tyre." Had it been composed for the marriage of Solomon, or Jehoram and Athaliah, or any king of Judah, there would surely have been an allusion to Jerusalem. Moreover, the queen is called שֵׁנָל, which is a Chaldee (Dan. v. 2), or perhaps a North Palestine word. The word in Judah was Gebira.
[592] Ἰθόβαλος, Josephus, Antt., VIII. xiii. 1; c. Ap., I. 18 (quoting the heathen historian Menander of Ephesus). It may, however, be "Man of Baal," like Saul's son Ishbaal (Ishbosheth). In Tyre the high priest was only second to the king in power (Justin, Hist., xviii. 4), and Ethbaal united both dignities. He died aged sixty-eight. Another Ethbaal was on the throne during the siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar (Josephus, Antt., X. xi. I).
[593] Josephus, c. Ap., I. 18. The genealogy is:—
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Phelles Ethbaal.
(a usurper, whom his |
brother Ethbaal slew). |
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Badezon. Jezebel.
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Matger (Belus).
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Pygmalion. Dido.
See Canon Rawlinson, Speaker's Commentary, ad loc.
[594] Plaut., Pænul., V. ii. 6, 7. Phœnician names abound in the element "Baal."