8. Kings Supposed by Some to be Those Mentioned in Gen. 14.
Some fragmentary tablets from the Persian period, not earlier than the fourth century B. C., contain references which have been brought by some scholars into connection with Abraham and the fourteenth of Genesis. The texts read as follows:
1. ....................
2. ..............................
3. .................... his work not ..........
4. .................. su-ḫa-am-mu ..........
5. ................ before the gods the creation of ..........
6. ............ day .......... Shamash, who illumines ..........
7. .......... the lord of the gods, Marduk, in the satisfaction of his heart,