[19] 2 Chron. xxxiii. 11 ff.
[20] 2 Kings xxi. 23.
[21] But in his conquests of Hauran, Northern Arabia and the eastern neighbours of Judah, he had evidently sought to imitate the policy of Asarhaddon in 675 f., and secure firm ground in Palestine and Arabia for a subsequent attack upon Egypt. That this never came shows more than anything else could Assyria’s consciousness of growing weakness.
[22] The name of Josiah’s (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ) mother was Jedidah (יְדִידָה), daughter of Adaiah (עֲדָיָה) of Boṣḳath in the Shephelah of Judah.
[23] 2 Kings xxii., xxiii.
[24] Zeph. i. 4: the LXX. reads names of Baal. See below, p. 40, n. [87].
[25] Ibid., 5.
[26] Ibid., 8–12.
[27] I. 102 ff.
[28] Herod., I. 105.