[861] Lam. iv. 10, ii. 20; Ezek. v. 10; Baruch ii. 3.
[862] Lam. iv. 5. See Stanley, Lectures, ii. 470.
[863] Ezek. xi. 22.
[864] This may possibly be alluded to in Psalm lxix. 2.
[865] Jer. xxxviii. 10, A.V., "thirty."
[866] Van Oort, iv. 52.
[867] Jos., Antt., X. viii. 2; 2 Chron. xxxii. 5, xxxiii. 14. First and last, the siege seems to have lasted one year, five months, and twenty-seven days.
[868] Zech. viii. 19.
[869] The inscriptions of Nebuchadrezzar which have been as yet deciphered speak of his sumptuous buildings and of his worship of the gods rather than of his conquests. See Records of the Past, vii. 69-78.
[870] Robinson, Bibl. Res., ii. 536. Some suppose that "the king's garden" was near the mouth of the Tyropœon Valley.