[736] Oppert, loc. cit., 1, 262, 269.

[737] Oppert, loc. cit., 1, 272 ff.

[738] Vol. I. 289; II. 33. Ménant, loc. cit., pp. 253, 255.

[739] Oppert, loc. cit., 1, 262, 263. Schrader, "Keilinschr. und A. T." s. 280.

[740] Joseph. "c. Apion." 1, 20, 21. Above, p. 354, n. In the fourteenth year of the reign of this Hiram Cyrus conquered Babylon; he must, therefore, have been placed on the throne in 551 B.C.

[741] E. g. Ezek. xx. 1.

[742] Ezek. xx. 40; chaps. xl.-xlviii.

[743] Ezek. ii. 4.

[744] Ezek. xviii. 21-23.