LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
1879.

Bungay:
CLAY AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS.

The present volume has been translated from the fifth edition of the original, and has had, throughout, the benefit of Professor Duncker's revision.

E. A.

Oxford, Jan. 14, 1879.

CONTENTS.

[BOOK III.]
ASSYRIA. PHŒNICIA. ISRAEL.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
THE STORY OF NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS[1]
CHAPTER II.
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ASSYRIAN KINGDOM[26]
CHAPTER III.
THE NAVIGATION AND COLONIES OF THE PHENICIANS[49]
CHAPTER IV.
THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL[89]
CHAPTER V.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONARCHY IN ISRAEL[109]
CHAPTER VI.
DAVID'S STRUGGLE AGAINST SAUL AND ISHBOSHETH[128]
CHAPTER VII.
THE RULE OF DAVID[150]
CHAPTER VIII.
KING SOLOMON[179]
CHAPTER IX.
THE LAW OF THE PRIESTS[201]
CHAPTER X.
JUDAH AND ISRAEL[227]
CHAPTER XI.
THE CITIES OF THE PHENICIANS[262]
CHAPTER XII.
THE TRADE OF THE PHENICIANS[294]
CHAPTER XIII.
THE RISE OF ASSYRIA[308]

BOOK III.