We hear on other occasions of a regiment of six hundred men among the Israelites (Judg. xx. 47; 1 Sam. xiii. 15, xxiii. 13), and it would seem, therefore, that in the division of the troops a memory of the culture of Babylonia was preserved. Six hundred men represented the Babylonian _ner_. Footnote 285: Judg. xviii. 30. ‘The captivity of the land’ is of course that described in 2 Kings xv. 29, and shows that the compilation of the Book of Judges must be subsequent to the conquest of Northern and Eastern Israel by Tiglath-pileser. Footnote 286: Kennicott, _Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum_, i. p. 509. ‘Moses’ is also the reading of the Vulgate and a few Greek MSS. Footnote 287: See 1 Kings viii. 9. The addition of the pot of manna and Aaron’s rod in the Epistle to the Hebrews (ix. 4) is due to a misunderstanding of Ex. xvi. 33, 34, and Numb. xvii. 10. Footnote 288: The identity of Mitanni and Nahrina is stated in one of the Tel el-Amarna letters (W. and A. 23) from Mitanni, a hieratic docket attached to it stating that it came from Nahrina. In one place, however (W. and A. 79. 13, 14), the Phœnician governor Rib-Hadad seems to distinguish between ‘the king of Mittani and the king of Nahrina,’ though the passage may also be translated, ‘the king of Mittani, that is, the king of Nahrina.’ Ilu-rabi-Khur of Gebal (W. and A. 91. 32) writes the name Narima, and says that the king of Narima in alliance with the king of the Hittites was destroying the Egyptian cities of Northern Syria. Footnote 289: W. and A. 104. 32-35. Comp. Numb. xxiv. 24, where Assyria and Eber take the place of Babylonia and Nahrima. The translation given above is from a corrected copy of the cuneiform text. Footnote 290: See _Records of the Past_, new ser., vi. pp. 28, 29, 34, 45. Footnote 291: Brugsch, _Egypt under the Pharaohs_ (Eng. tr.), ii. p. 151; _Records of the Past_, new ser., vi. pp. 31-45. Footnote 292: _Records of the Past_, new ser., vi. pp. 38-41. As only the _qau_ or ‘district’ of Shalam is mentioned, it is possible that the city itself was not captured by the Egyptian troops. Hebron is written _Khibur_, _i.e._ the city of the ‘Khabiri.’ Footnote 293: Was the campaign of Ramses III. the mysterious ‘hornet’ sent before the children of Israel to destroy the populations of Canaan (Exod. xxiii. 28, Deut. vii. 20, Josh. xxiv. 12)? At any rate, this is more probable than the suggestion that _tsir’âh_, rendered ‘hornet,’ is a variant of _tsâra’ath_, ‘plague.’ Footnote 294: The name has been Hebraised, and perhaps corrupted, so that it is difficult to suggest what could have been its Mitannian original. The Khusarsathaim of the Septuagint, however, reminds us of the name of Dusratta or Tuisratta, the Mitannian king who corresponded with the Pharaoh Amenophis IV. Footnote 295: Livy, xxviii. 37, xxx. 7. Footnote 296: