[9] “Records of the Past,” New Series, vol. ii.
[10] Brugsch, “History of Egypt,” vol. ii.
[11] May it not perhaps have been a new name given to Bubastis, after rebuilding?
[12] M. Naville, whose excavations at Tell Basta have shown that Bubastis was a very large city, and a favourite resort of the king and his family, thinks it quite possible that, at the time we are speaking of, the king was at Bubastis and not at Zoan.
[13] Gesenius gives the meaning, “rush, reed, seaweed;” and in Exod. ii. 3, Moses is said to have been laid in an ark of souph or reeds.
[14] In this paraphrase I render one of the vavs by “then” instead of “and.” This will be allowed me. What will be objected to is the assumption that Lasha is Laish, especially as Lasha contains a different radical, the ayin (לָשַׁע). But the passage in Genesis may give an archaic spelling; and as Lasha signifies “the breaking through of waters,” it is eminently descriptive of the source of the Jordan at Dan. To place Lasha in the south-east of Palestine, as is done in Smith’s “Dictionary of the Bible,” is to charge the description in Genesis with being defective, for how are the limits of a people defined by tracing two sides of an irregular quadrangle?
[15] Josephus: “Wars,” iii. 10. § 8.
[16] “Twenty-one years’ Work in the Holy Land.”
[17] For an account of the “Book of Jasher,” see the “Literary Remains of Emanuel Deutsch.”
[18] Little Hermon is really a misnomer for the conical hill of Duhy just north of the Valley of Jezreel. The mention of Tabor and Hermon together in Psalm lxxxix. 12, has misled those who did not realize that Tabor would be in the same line of vision with Mount Hermon, for many observers in the south.