[280] Selah, "a rock" (Πέτρα). Eusebius calls it Rekem.
[281] It is the name also of a city of Judah (Josh. xv. 38).
[282] 2 Chron. xxviii. 17; Jos., Antt., XII. viii. 6.
[283] 2 Chron. xxv. 5-10, 13.
[284] Κατακρημνισμός. This mode of execution prevailed till quite recent times in the little republic of Andorra.
[285] 2 Kings xiv. 17. The phrase that "he lived fifteen years" is unusual, and seems to imply that the historian saw,—
"In more of life true life no more."
[286] Josh. x. 6, 31, xv. 39; 2 Kings xviii. 17; 2 Chron. xi. 9.
[287] I have not thought it worth while to unravel by a series of uncertain conjectures the careless, and often self-contradictory, synchronism of the reigns of the kings in the two kingdoms. The compiler of these books evidently attached little or no importance to accurate chronology. For instance, the data of 2 Kings xiii. 1, 10, do not coincide; and instead of entering into tedious, doubtful, and confusing guesses, I have contented myself throughout with giving for the reigns of the kings such dates, or approximate dates, as seem to result from the several notices compared with the contemporary annals of Assyria.
[288] 2 Chron. xxiv. 23.