Footnote 87: Compare Lev. xx, 2; Deut. xii, 31, and kindred passages. Footnote 88: The Moabite stone was about three feet and nine inches long, two feet and four inches in breadth and fourteen inches thick. The inscription contained many incidents concerning the wars of King Mesha with Israel; see also 2 Kings, 3d chap. The literature connected with this stone is very great, no less than forty-nine Orientalists having written in various languages upon this fascinating theme, and although many of these productions are merely papers or brochures, there are at least eight different volumes upon this subject. The characters are Phœnician, and form a link between those of the Baal-Lebanon inscription of the tenth century B.C. and those of the Siloam text. Footnote 89: Chemosh, who is called “the abomination of the Moabites,” is alluded to in Numb. xxi, 29; also Jer. xlviii, 7, and various other passages. Footnote 90: Tablet K 4902 of the British Museum Collection, translated by Ernest A. Budge. Footnote 91: “They have builded also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal,” etc. (Jeremiah xix. 5. See also many kindred passages.) Footnote 92: This inscription was translated by Dr. Oppert, and Esmunazar is supposed to have lived in the fourth century B.C. Footnote 93: 2 Kings xvii. 16, and kindred passages. Footnote 94: Western Asia Inscriptions, Vol. IV. p. 32. Footnote 95: The prophet Ezekiel speaks of the fact that “there sat women weeping for Tammuz,” as even a “greater abomination” than burning incense to idols. (See Ezekiel viii, 13-14.) Footnote 96: The worship of Ashtaroth, which represented the grossest licentiousness and demanded human sacrifices, is strongly condemned in Judges ii, 12-13, and many other passages. Footnote 97: Annals of Assur-bani-pal, Cylinder B, Column 5. Footnote 98: Pliny, Nat. Hist., Vol. II, p. 619. Footnote 99: Pausanius, III, 25. Footnote 100: Literally “blue stone;” it was a brilliant dark blue. Footnote 101: The eagle, the lion, the horse, the king and the workman are supposed to represent the numerous bridegrooms of this treacherous goddess. Footnote 102: Inscriptions Western Asia, Vol. IV, p. 48, published by the British Museum, and translated by H. Fox Talbot, F.R. S. Footnote 103: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, VII, 234. Footnote 104: The great celebrity of this fable is well illustrated by the fact that Ovid in his Metamorphoses (III, 206), has preserved the individual names of all the dogs, thirty-five in number. Footnote 105: