[151] Brugsch, “Hist. Egt.,” ii. pp. 294–96; Prof. H. Gunkel, _Deutsche Rundschau_, January 1908. _Sanballaṭ_ (“Sinu has given life”), _Delaya_ (“set free by Ya”), and _Shelemya_ (“friend of Ya”), are Semitic and apparently Babylonian names. [152] Ezra iii. 12; Hag. ii. 3. [153] Ezra iv. 6, 8, 12, 21, 24. [154] Hilprecht, in his “Nippur Memoirs” (vol. ix. pp. 27, 28), gives instances of Persians with Babylonian wives as early as the reign of Artaxerxes I., together with many names of Hebrews who were residing in Babylonia. [155] Taylor, “Alphabet,” vol. i. p. 258. [156] Neh. iii. 7. [157] Neh. ii. 13–15. [158] The Hebrew _’abar_ does not of necessity mean “crossing” any valley. The word is constantly used in the Old Testament with the more general meaning to “go on,” as in the English of this passage. [159] Neh. iii. and xii. [160] 1 Chron. xxix. 19; Neh. ii. 8. Mishnah, _Zebakhim_, xii. 3; _Tamid_, i. 1; _Middoth_, i. 9. [161] Neh. iii. 1, xii. 39; Jer. xxxi. 38; Zech. xiv. 10. [162] Neh. iii. 1–32. [163] Neh. iii. 3, xii. 39, xiii. 16. [164] Neh. iii. 6; 2 Kings xxii. 14; Zeph. i. 10. [165] Neh. xii. 39; 2 Chron. xxv. 23, xxvi. 9; Jer. xxxi. 38. Josephus describes the streets in this part as oblique to the wall (“Wars,” V. viii. 1). [166] Neh. iii. 8, xii. 38. [167] “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., pp. 393–7; Bliss, “Excavations at Jerusalem,” pp. 2–10. [168] Neh. iii. 16, xii. 37; see 2 Kings xii. 20; 1 Chron. xxvi. 16. Bliss, “Excavations at Jerusalem,” p. 151. [169] See back, p. 69. [170] Neh. iii. 15, xii. 37; 2 Kings xii. 20; 1 Chron xxvi. 16. [171] Neh. iii. 23–6, xii. 37. See p. 65. [172] 2 Chron. xxvii. 3, xxxiii. 14; Neh. iii. 26, xi. 21. [173] Neh. iii. 31–2, xii. 39. CHAPTER V THE GREEK AGE [Sidenote: THE GREEKS]