solely applied--namely, the small spur which is called Ophel in the Bible. FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER II [46] Ps. cx. 4; Heb. v. 6, 10, vii. 1–4. [47] Ps. lxxvi. 2. [48] Gen. xiv. 17, 18; 2 Sam. xviii. 18; Josephus, “Ant.,” I. x. 2; “Ant.,” VII. x. 3. [49] Gen. xxxiii. 18 (A.V. marg.), called _Sâlim el Kebîra_ (“Great Salem”) in Samaritan Chronicle (Neubauer, _Journal Asiatique_, Dec. 1869, p. 433). See “Mem. West Pal.,” ii. p. 230; Tal. Jer., _Abodah Zara_, v. 4; John iii. 23; Onomasticon, s.v. _Jerusalem_ and _Salem_; Chron. Paschale, quoted by Reland, “Pal. Illustr.,” ii. p. 977. Jerome (“Ep. ad Evang.”), “Salem oppidum est juxta Scythopolim quod usque hodie appellatur Salem et ostenditur ibi palatium Melchisedec,” etc. [50] Gen. xiv. 1; Josephus, “Wars,” VI. x. 1. See my article in “Murray’s Bible Dictionary,” 1908, “Chronology.” The date is now ascertained from the Babylonian Chronicle’s through-reckoning, and from a text of Nabu-nahid, while the same result was reached by Dr. Felix Peiser (_Zeitschrift für Assyr._ vi. pp. 264–71) in 1891 from the statements of Berosus. [51] Ariel (Isa. xxix. 1, 2, 7) may stand for Babylonian _eri-ilu_, “city of God,” as a name of Jerusalem. [52] Ezek. xvi. 3, 45. [53] See my volume “The Hittites and Their Language,” 1898. Dr. Sayce (“The Hittites,” 1888) also (p. 14) calls them “Mongoloid.” [54] Gen. xxii. 2 (LXX. _hupsēlē_); in 2 Chr. iii. 2 it is not translated in the Greek. In Babylonian _mur-iahu_ would mean “seat of Yahu.” [55] Gen. xxii. 14 (see R.V.); possibly to be rendered “in the mount Jehovah appears.” The LXX.: “In the mount the Lord was seen” (see 2 Sam. xxiv. 16). [56] Akkadian _ab_ (or _ub_), “abode,” _us_, “strong”; Turkish _eb_ and _üs_. Isaiah refers to the meaning of the Semitic name as “a quiet habitation” (xxxiii. 20). [57] In Akkadian _Ṣi-an_ is “palace” (in the Behistān dialect), and _Zi-una_, “chief’s building” or “God’s place.” Gesenius compares the Arabic _ṣahweh_, “fortress,” and _ṣahyûn_. [58] See Isa. xxx. 33, “deep and large.” [59] _Araunah_ (2 Sam. xxiv. 16, 20); Heb. _Aranieh_ in ver. 18; _Ornan_ (1 Chr. xxi. 15–28); no doubt originally written with the signs _UR-AN-EN_, which would read either _Ur-ena_ or _Ur-nun_; in LXX. always _Orna_. [60] These synchronisms show that the approximate dates given by Brugsch for Amenophis III. and IV. are correct. The recent discoveries of Dr. H. Winckler in Cappadocia also prove that Rameses II. was ruling about 1330 B. C., as Brugsch supposed. The later dates given by some Egyptologists are based on a fallacious astronomical calculation, and do not agree with the known Assyrian and Babylonian dates. [61] Taylor cylinder text. See also my “Tell Amarna Tablets,” 2nd edit. 1898, pp. 117–20, 193. [62] “Tell Amarna Tablets,” pp. 8, 14, 187, 193, 200, 202, 210; _Deutschen Orient Gesellschaft_, No. 35, 1908, discoveries of Dr. H. Winckler, pp. 33–6. [63] “Amarna Tablets,” pp. 170, 188.