[270] Isa. xxiv. 2; Jer. v. 31, xxiii. 11; Ezek. vii. 26, xxii. 26; Hos. iv. 9; Mic. iii. 11, etc.
[271] Jer. xxix. 24-32.
[272] 2 Kings ix. 11.
[273] But from the Book of Kings we should not infer that there had been any fighting at all. The Syrian commander had been bribed to retire.
[274] We cannot understand the addition "on the way that goeth down to Silla." Silla is nowhere else referred to.
[275] LXX., 2 Chron. xxiv. 27, καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ πάντες.
[276] Νήπιος ὃς πατέρα κτείνας υἱοὺς καταλείπει. Comp. Q. Curtius, vi. 11: "Lege cautum erat ut propinqui eorum qui regi insidiati cum ipsis necarentur." Cic., Ad Brut., 15.
[277] 2 Kings viii. 20-22.
[278] Amos i. 11.
[279] The Valley (Gê) of Salt is "the plain of the Sabkah," about two miles broad, between the southern end of the Dead Sea and the hills which separate the Ghôr from the Arabah (Seetzen, Reisen, ii. 356; Robinson, Researches, ii. 450, 488). David had won a great victory there (2 Sam. viii. 13; Psalm lx., title).