[Footnote 13: It will be observed that this city is differently spelled in line 27. Irregularities of this kind are very frequent, especially in the termination of proper names.] [Footnote 14: See note 3, p. 188.] [Footnote 15: "Ahuni." See l. 61, p. 191.] [Footnote 16: The Hebrew Sivan.] [Footnote 17: Or, "as it were situated among the storm-clouds of heaven."] [Footnote 18: The nature of these engines ("bilsi") is uncertain.] [Footnote 19: I.e., stony-hill.] [Footnote 20: Or, lead.] [Footnote 21: Possibly "humiliation," from the Chaldee "rama."] [Footnote 22: Airu.] [Footnote 23: Carchemish. Cf. Jeremiah xlvi. 2.] [Footnote 24: Tribe(?).] [Footnote 25: Or, lead.] [Footnote 26: Some projecting ornament, like "horns of an altar." Cf. Ps. cxviii. 27; Exod. xxx. 2.] [Footnote 27: Probably some utensils, as explained by the Hebrew word "unutu" ("anioth").] [Footnote 28: Or, with Mr. Norris, "the whole of it was not taken." Dict., p. 558.] [Footnote 29: The words specified are "sa" or "issa," "passur," and probably "ebony"; the others have not been identified.] [Footnote 30: Probably "in ivory."] [Footnote 31: Labnana.] [Footnote 32: Hazazi.] [Footnote 33: Prince.] [Footnote 34: The Inscription is here defaced.] [Footnote 35: May this be the Hebrew word for garments, "beged"?] [Footnote 36: Defaced.] [Footnote 37: Arunte.] [Footnote 38: Defaced.] [Footnote 39: Defaced.] [Footnote 40: Precisely thus: "The King of Assyria brought men from Babylon ... and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel."--2 Kings xvii. 24.] [Footnote 41: "Akhari." Heb. [Hebrew: achari].] [Footnote 42: Literally, Zurai, Sidunai, Gubalai, Makullat.] [Footnote 43: See p. 192, note 5.] [Footnote 44: Ebony.] [Footnote 45: The mountain chain which divides Syria from Cilicia.] [Footnote 46: Or, proof.] [Footnote 47: Literally, sat.] [Footnote 48: I.e., "the sun is my light."] [Footnote 49: Assyr. "Airu," Heb. "Iyar." 866 B.C.] [Footnote 50: Literally, Kumukhaya.] [Footnote 51: Between Carchemish and the Orontes.] [Footnote 52: Diarbekr, still known by the name of "Kar-Amid." Rawlinson's "Herodotus," l. 466. The name is of frequent occurrence in early Christian writers.] [Footnote 53: See p. 188, note 2.] [Footnote 54: Cf. Is. x. 34, "He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron"; also Ezek. xxxix. 10.] [Footnote 55: The inscription is here defaced.] [Footnote 56: Defaced.] [Footnote 57: See p. 188, note 2.] [Footnote 58: The grandfather of Assur-nasir-pal. His reign probably terminated at 889 B.C.] [Footnote 59: Literally, shepherd. Thus, Isa. xliv. 28, "Cyrus is my shepherd."] [Footnote 60: Cf. Ps. xxix. 10, "The Lord (Jhvh) sitteth upon the flood; yea the Lord sitteth King forever."] [Footnote 61: This reads like an annexation of a portion of Babylonian territory.] [Footnote 62: Or upholder, proclaimer of Sin, the moon; of. I. 127.]