[331] Comp. Isa. xliv. 9-20. Mr. Hormuzd Rassan discovered a colossal statue of Nebo at Nimroud in 1853. Shalmanezer III. says on his obelisk, "I made an image of my royalty; upon it I inscribed the praise of Asshur my master, and a true account of my exploits." Herodotus (i. 183) mentions a statue of Zeus in Babylon, on which was spent eight hundred talents of gold, and of another made of "solid gold" twelve ells high. [332] By the apologists the "image" or "statue" is easily toned down into a bust on a hollow pedestal (Archdeacon Rose, _Speaker's Commentary_, p. 270). The colossus of Nero is said to have been a hundred and ten feet high, but was of marble. Nestle (_Marginalia_, 35) quotes a passage from Ammianus Marcellinus, which mentions a colossal statue of Apollo reared by Antiochus Epiphanes, to which there may be a side-allusion here. [333] Schrader, p. 430: Dur-Yagina, Dur-Sargina, etc. LXX., ἐν πεδίῳ τοῦ περιβόλου χώρας Βαβυλωνίας. [334] LXX. and Vulg., _satrapæ_. Comp. Ezra viii. 36; Esther iii. 12. Supposed to be the Persian _Khshatra-pāwan_ (Bevan, p. 79). [335] _Signî_, Babylonian word (Schrader, p. 411). [336] LXX., τοπάρχαι. Comp. _Pechah_, Ezra v. 14. An Assyrian word (Schrader, p. 577). [337] LXX., ἡγούμενοι. Perhaps the Persian _endarzgar_, or "counsellor." [338] LXX., διοικηταί. Comp. Ezra vii. 21; but Grätz thinks there is a mere scribe's mistake for the _gadbarî_ of vv. 24 and 27. [339] This word is perhaps the old Persian _dàtabard_. [340] The word is found here alone. Perhaps "advisers." On these words see Bevan, p. 79; _Speaker's Commentary_, pp. 278, 279; Sayce, _Assyr. Gr._, p. 110. [341] Ewald, _Prophets_, v. 209; _Hist._, v. 294. [342] The word has often been compared with the Greek κήρυξ, but the root is freely found in Assyrian inscriptions (_Karaz_, "an edict"). [343] Comp. Rev. xviii. 2, ἔκραξεν ἐν ἰσχύϊ. [344] See _supra_, p. 22. The _qar'na_ (horn, κέρας) and _sab'ka_ (σαμβύκη) are in root both Greek and Aramean. The "pipe" (_mash'rôkîtha_) is Semitic. Brandig tries to prove that even in Nebuchadrezzar's time these three Greek names (even the _symphonia_) had been borrowed by the Babylonians from the Greeks; but the combined weight of philological authority is against him. [345] See _Hibbert Lectures_, chap. lxxxix., etc. [346] Comp. vi. 13, 14. [347] _Akaloo Qar'tsîhîn._ [348] It is "found in the Targum rendering of Lev. xix. 16 for a talebearer, and is frequent as a Syriac and Arabic idiom" (Fuller). [349] Jerome emphasises the element of jealousy, "Quos prætulisti nobis et _captivos ac servos principes fecisti_, ii _elati in superbiam_ tua præcepta contemnunt." [350] The phrase is unique and of uncertain meaning. [351] Exod. v. 2; Isa. xxxvi. 20; 2 Chron. xxxii. 13-17. [352] Dan. iii. 16. LXX., οὐ χρείαν ἔχομεν; Vulg., _non oportet nos_. To soften the brusqueness of the address, in which the Rabbis (_e.g._, Rashi) rejoice, the LXX. add another Βασιλεῦ.