[129] Isa. vii. 3, viii. 6, xxii. 9, 11, xxxvi. 2. [130] Josephus, “Wars,” V. xii. 2. [131] 2 Kings xvi. 10–16. [132] 2 Kings xvi. 18. [133] Now _Tell en Naṣbeh_; see Isa. x. 32, xx. 1. [134] 2 Kings xx. 20; 2 Chron. xxxii. 4, 5, 30. [135] The level of the bottom is 2,080 feet above sea-level, or 7 feet lower than that of the commencement of the tunnel. [136] See my report, “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., 1883, pp. 345–65. The inscription was copied by me on July 15, 1881. [137] See my article “Weights and Measures” in “Murray’s Bible Dictionary,” 1908, p. 944, for details. [138] Taylor cylinder; 2 Kings xviii. 17. [139] 2 Kings, xviii. 14. The Assyrian reads: _Sasu kima iṣṣuri kuuppi kirib ali Urusalimmu alu sarrutisu esir-su: khalsi ilisu urakisma, aṣie abulli ali-su utirra ikkibus_, etc. [140] 2 Chron. xxxiii. 14. [141] 2 Chron. xvi. 14, xxvi. 23, xxviii. 27, xxxiii. 20; Neh. iii. 16. See for the suggested tomb of David my “Handbook to the Bible,” 1879 (3rd edit. 1882, p. 341). Rev. Selah Merrill has recently adopted this suggestion: “Anct. Jer.,” 1908, p. 258. [142] 2 Chron. xxxii. 33; Tosiphta, _Baba Bathra_, ch. i.; Josephus, “Ant.,” VII. xv. 3, XIII. viii. 4, XVI. vii. 1. The kings elsewhere buried were Asa, Jehoram, Uzziah, Ahaziah, Joash, Ahaz, and Manasseh. See Acts ii. 29. The Mishnah (_Baba Bathra_, ii. 9) says that tombs should be 50 cubits outside the city, but the Tosiphta says that those of the family of David were inside it. [143] “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., 1883, pp. 319–31. [144] This pit is too short to have been a grave. [145] 2 Chron. xxvi. 23. This tomb is again noticed in chap. x. [146] Hilprecht, “Nippur Memoir,” I. i. plate 32. [147] Hilprecht, “Nippur Memoir,” I. i. plate 34. This translation of these two texts is from the original. [148] 2 Kings xxv. 2, 12; Jer. xxxii. 1. [149] Jer. xi. 13. It is very doubtful whether Bosheth means “shame.” Jeremiah refers to Topheth (vii. 32, xix. 6), to the tower Hananeel and the Corner Gate (xxxi. 38), to Gareb (“the plantation”) and Goath (ver. 39), to the valley of dead bodies and ashes, and the “enclosures” of Kidron, with the “corner of the Horse Gate” (ver. 40), to the “East Gate” or “Pottery Gate” (xix. 2), and to “the graves of the common people” (xxvi. 23), as well as the “Higher Court” and “New Gate” of the Temple (xxxvi. 10), and the “Gate of Benjamin” (xxxvii. 13) already noticed. See also Ezek. viii. 3; Joel iii. 2; Zech. xiv. 10. There was also a baker’s bazaar in Jerusalem (Jer. xxxvii. 21). CHAPTER IV EZRA AND NEHEMIAH [Sidenote: SANBALLAT]