[154]. See Josh. 10 : 3–35; 12 : 11; 15 : 39; 2 Kings 14 : 19; 18 : 14–19, etc.
[155]. See, for example, 1 Kings 2 : 28.
[156]. See Bliss’s Mound of Many Cities, p. 77 f.
[157]. See “Afghan Life in Afghan Songs,” in Darmesteter’s Selected Essays, p. 117.
[158]. On the testimony of a native Syrian of wide experience in the region referred to.
[159]. W. Robertson Smith’s Religion of the Semites, p. 319.
[160]. Strassmaier Nabuchodonosor, No. 183.
[161]. Dieulafoy’s “L’art antique de la Perse;” cited in Babelon’s Manual of Oriental Antiquities, p. 152.
[162]. See The Times (London) for July 12, 1894.
[163]. See Hopkins’s Religions of India, p. 361, note.