31 – It has been supposed by some that the word “Rehoboth” does not refer to a city, but to the “_wide street_” of Nineveh. The term is used in that sense in an inscription of Esar-haddon, in which he says that he paraded the heads of two kings of Sidon through (Rehoboth) “the streets” of Nineveh. W. A. I., Vol. I., p. 45; in “History of Esar-haddon,” Budge, 1881, p. 41. 32 – Herodotus, Vol. II., p. 121. 33 – Geikie, Vol. I., p. 247. 34 – More fully spoken of page 69. 35 – The hieratic is written from right to left, as is the Phœnician. See Sayce’s “Ancient Empires of the East,” Scribner, 1886, p. 84. 36 – Bertheau, as quoted by Geikie, Vol. I., p. 251, and Lenormant, Vol. II., p. 144. 37 – Job 41:6; Prov. 31:24, where the word “merchant” is Canaanite in the Hebrew. 38 – “Antiquities,” Vol. I., § 6:4. 39 – Maclear, p. 24. 40 – Oppert, “Journal Asiatique,” Vol. X., p. 220; Vol. IX., p. 503. Lenormant, “Langue Primitive de la Chaldée,” p. 355. Geikie, Vol. I., p. 291. 41 – Lenormant, “Ancient History of the East,” p. 445. 42 – Geikie, Vol. I., p. 274. 43 – “Præp Evang.,” IX., 17. Geikie, Vol. I., p. 295. 44 – A. H. Sayce in the “Hibbert Lectures,” 1887. See also in “Old Testament Student,” 1887, p. 134. 45 – Sayce, translation as referred to in previous note. 46 – See Herzog, article “Ur.” 47 – Pronounced _ha´-i_. 48 – Pronounced _a´-i_. 49 – Hale’s date is B. C. 2078. 50 – Gen. 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; Exod. 15:22; 1 Sam. 15:7; 27:8. Shur means “wall.” 51 – Pronounced Ke´-ops. 52 – Wilkinson’s date is B. C. 1532, but Brugsch gives it as B. C. 1433. 53 – Sir Henry Rawlinson. 54 – “La Langue Primitive,” p. 376; in Tomkin’s “Times of Abraham,” p. 181. 55 – Bir es Seba in the Arabic is the same as Beersheba in the Hebrew. 56 – Sayce, “Ancient Empires,” p. 200. 57 – We have mentioned them on page 37. 58 – Fourth memoir of “The Egypt Exploration Fund,” 1887, p. 15. 59 – Osborn’s “Ancient Egypt in the Light of Modern Discovery,” p. 82. 60 – Ebers’ “Konigstöchter,” Vol. I., p. 22 in the note, 40. 61 – Geikie, Vol. I., p. 468. 62 – See Geikie, Vol. I., p. 462. 63 – For illustrations of this fact see “Ancient Empires of the East,” Sayce. Preface. 64 – Dynasty was the term given to kings of the same family or blood relations. 65 – This view appears to be the correct one, although there is some variation of opinion. 66 – Gray’s “Connection between Sacred and Heathen Authors,” p. 563. Longinus “On the Sublime.” 67 – Lepsius in Geikie, Vol. II., p. 384. 68 – Supposed to have been Debir, south of Hebron. 69 – Wilkinson in Tomkins’ “Studies of the Times of Abraham,” p. 86. 70 – Tomkins, p. 86.