[607] The deliverance is really connected with Tirhakah, whose deeds are recorded in a temple at Medinet Habou, but the jealousy of the Memphites attributed it to the piety of Sethos. See G. W. Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, i. 141; Rawlinson, Herodotus, i. 394.
[608] Antt., X. i. 1-5.
[609] Comp. 1 Sam. v., vi., where, after a plague, the Philistines sent an expiation of five golden mice.
[610] We may add that even the Chronicler drops a veil over Sennacherib's actual capture of fortresses in Judah ("he thought to win them for himself," 2 Chron. xxxii. 1: comp. 2 Kings xviii. 13; Isa. xxxvi. 1).
[611] Isa. vi. 11-13.
[612] Isa. v. 26-30.
[613] Isa. vii. 18.
[614] Isa. viii., xxviii. 1-15, x. 28-34.
[615] Isa. xiv. 29-32, xxix., xxx.
[616] Isa. i. 19, 20.