[140]. Hosea, 11, 1.
[141]. Amos, 3, 2.
[142]. 2 Kings, 17, 1-23; the figures are from an inscription of Sargon, the victorious Assyrian King: see Authority and Archæology, 101.
[143]. 2 Kings, 19, 35-36; Wellhausen, Israel and Judah, Chap. VII; Authority and Archæology, 105-108.
[144]. Jeremiah, 25, 1-14.
[145]. 2 Kings, 25, 1-22.
[146]. Psalm 137.
[147]. The details have now been read in Cyrus’s own inscriptions: Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible, I, 541.
[148]. From Chap. 40 onwards. See Driver, Introduction, 217.
[149]. Isaiah, 40, 1-10; 44, 24-28.