In addition to the accounts in the Books of Kings and Chronicles of Pharaoh Nĕcoh’s advance into Asia in pursuance of his claim for a share of the crumbling Assyrian Empire there are two independent records: (1) Jeremiah XLVII. 1—_and Pharaoh smote Gaza_—a headline (with other particulars) wrongly prefixed by the Hebrew text, but not by the Greek, to an Oracle upon an invasion of Philistia not from the south but from the north (see above, pp. 13, 61); (2) by Herodotus, II. 159, who says that “Nĕcoh (Nekôs) making war by land on the Syrians defeated them at Magdolos and after the battle took Kadŭtis, a great city of Syria.” Magdolos is probably Megiddo, unless it stands for Megdel, which, as well as Rumman (= Hadad-rimmon, the scene of the mourning for Josiah, Zech. XII. 11) lies near Megiddo. If, as is usually held, Kadŭtis be Gaza, Herodotus has reversed the proper order of Nĕcoh’s two actions; but Kadŭtis also suggests _hak-Kôdēsh_, _the holy_, an epithet of Jerusalem (_Jerusalem_, I. 270) which would suit Herodotus’ order, for it was after Megiddo that Nĕcoh became master of Jerusalem and Judah. The suggestion, though worth mentioning, is doubtful; the epithet is late, exilic and post-exilic; and Herodotus’ phrase _took Kadŭtis_ is hardly equivalent to _became paramount_ there as Nĕcoh became paramount in Jerusalem. INDEX OF TEXTS. Genesis— xlix. 27; 69 Exodus— xxi. 1-6; 235 Leviticus— vi. 5; 152 xix. 27; 206 xxvi. 34 f.; 8 Numbers— xxx. 2, 12; 313 Deuteronomy— iv. 19; 136, 195 xvii. 3; 195 xviii. 6; 135 xxxii. 13; 222 Judges— i. 16; 193 iv. 17; 194 v. 4; 222 24; 194 xi. 36; 313 I. Samuel— x. 2; 302 xv. 6; 193 22; 156 I. Kings— ii. 26 f.; 67 II. Kings— x. 15, 23; 193 xxii. 12 ff.; 174 20; 259 xxiii. 5, 13; 195 8 ff.; 135 10; 196 28-30; 163 31; 66, 232 xxiv. 1-16; 176 6; 259 8, 15; 213 17; 232 18; 66 xxv. 7; 270 18; 246 21; 236 I. Chronicles— ii. 55; 193 II. Chronicles— xxxv. 20; 162 xxxvi. 21-23; 8 Ezra— i. 1 f.; 8 Nehemiah— xiii; 20 15-22; 221 Psalms— v. 9; 122 xv; 232 xxiii; 9 xxvi-xxviii; 9 l. 13, 14; 158 li. 16, 17; 158 Isaiah— vi; 351 x. 28-32; 70 xv. f.; 20 xl. ff.; 8, 20 xliv. 28; 8 lii, liii; 7 lvi. 2-7; 221 lviii; 20 13 f.; 221 lx. 5; 302