[Footnote 8: Probably the Dagon of Scripture.]
[Footnote 9: Compare the boast in Isaiah xxxvii. 24, "I cut down the tall cedars.">[
[Footnote 10: Goings. Cf. Ps. xl. 2, "He hath established my goings.">[
[Footnote 11: Mouth.]
[Footnote 12: The god Yav may be the Yaveh of the Moabite stone.]
[Footnote 13: Or, shade. This may refer to the eclipse of July 13, 885
B.C.]
[Footnote 14: A federation of States north and northeast of Assyria at the head of the Euphrates. In Tig. iv. 7, 33 of their kings are mentioned.]
[Footnote 15: Literally, "animals of the East." This looks as if the
Assyrians obtained the horse from some Eastern land.]
[Footnote 16: Or, a viceroy.]
[Footnote 17: A mountainous country near the upper Tigris, possibly
Kurdistan.]