[192] Prov. xi. 10. Compare the remark of Voltaire, who saw "le peuple ivré de vin et de joie de la mort de Louis XIV."
[193] 1 Kings xvi. 31. At this time Ethbaal was dead. He reigned probably from b.c. 940-908, and died at the age of sixty-eight (Jos., Antt., VIII. xiii. 1, IX. vi. 6; c. Ap., i. 18).
[194] 1 Kings xxi. 23.
[195] Comp. Psalm lxxxiii. 10. Her name remained a by-word till the latest days (Rev. ii. 20), and the Spanish Jews called their persecutress Isabella the Catholic "Jezebel."
[196] Omri, 12 years; Ahab, 22; Ahaziah, 18; Jehoram, 12.
[197] The reading of 2 Kings x. 1, "Unto the rulers of Jezreel," is clearly wrong. The LXX. reads, "Unto the rulers of Samaria." Unless "Jezreel" be a clerical error for Israel, we must read, "He sent letters from Jezreel unto the rulers of Samaria."
[198] Fig-baskets, Jer. xxiv. 2. The word dudim is rendered "pots" in 1 Sam. ii. 14. LXX., ἐν καρτάλλοις; Vulg., in cophinis. In Psalm lxxxi. 6 the LXX. has ἐν τῷ κοφίνῳ.
[199] Jos., Antt., IX. vi. 5.
[200] Heb., Tsibourîm; LXX., βουνούς.
[201] Comp. 1 Sam. xvii. 54; 2 Macc. xv. 30.