I hoisted; their boys (_Continued on Column II._) [Footnote 1: Ninip was one of the great gods of the Assyrian Pantheon, often joined with Assur as one of the special deities invoked by the Assyrian kings at the opening of their inscriptions. His name is also written under the symbol used for iron ("parzii"). Thus in later times the planets were connected with special metals.] [Footnote 2: A goddess, called also Nuha, and the mother of Nebo as well as of Ninip. Fox Talbot (Gloss. 158) compares "nu (= 'al') kimmut" with the "al-gum" of Prov. xxx. 31, i.e., "irresistible."] [Footnote 3: Planets. Or, "warrior among spirits." I mention this rendering as the suggestion of Mr. G. Smith, though I prefer that given above.] [Footnote 4: Literally, "horn." Cf. Job xvi. 15.] [Footnote 5: Tigallu. Menant renders this sentence "La massue pour regner sur les villes."] [Footnote 6: Cf. Ps. xxiv. 8.] [Footnote 7: Cf. Ps. xcv. 4; civ. 6; cvii. 35.] [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.] [Footnote 18: The Hebrew month Ab.] [Footnote 19: In the text, "Kummuhi" and "Muski."] [Footnote 20: Dr. Hincks was of opinion that Lamaman meant "nobody"; and that "Son of Lamaman" was a delicate way of indicating a man was of low origin. Norr. Dict., p. 690.] [Footnote 21: Assyrian, "Khabur." This may be the Chebar mentioned in the Prophet Ezekiel. Schultens, however (in his Geogr.), mentions another Chaboras which flows into the Tigris.] [Footnote 22: In the north of Mesopotamia.] [Footnote 23: Literally, to my back.] [Footnote 24: Compare 2 Mace. vii. 7 for a somewhat similar proceeding. The custom may also be alluded to in Mic. iii. 3.] [Footnote 25: Compare Ps. lxxiv. 3, "Lift up thy feet," etc.] [Footnote 26: About 882 B.C.] [Footnote 27: Near the modern Diarbekir, on the road to the sources of the Supnat.] [Footnote 28: In Armenia near the sources of the Tigris.]