[27] I. 102 ff. [28] Herod., I. 105. [29] The new name of Bethshan in the mouth of Esdraelon, viz. Scythopolis, is said to be derived from them (but see _Hist. Geog. of the Holy Land_, pp. 363 f.); they conquered Askalon (Herod., I. 105). [30] 2 Kings xvii. 6: _and in the cities_ (LXX. _mountains_) _of the Medes_. The Heb. is מָדָי, Madai. [31] Mentioned by Sargon. [32] Sayce, _Empires of the East_, 239: cf. McCurdy, § 823 f. [33] Herod., I. 103. [34] Heb. Kasdim, כַּשְׂדִים; LXX. Χαλδαῖοι; Assyr. Kaldâa, Kaldu. The Hebrew form with _s_ is regarded by many authorities as the original, from the Assyrian root _kashadu_, to conquer, and the Assyrian form with _l_ to have arisen by the common change of _sh_ through _r_ into _l_. The form with _s_ does not occur, however, in Assyrian, which also possesses the root _kaladu_, with the same meaning as _kashadu_. See Mr. Pinches’ articles on Chaldea and the Chaldeans in the new edition of Vol. I. of Smith’s _Bible Dictionary_. [35] About 880 B.C. in the annals of Assurnatsirpal. See Chronological Table to Vol. I. [36] No inscriptions of Asshur-itil-ilani have been found later than the first two years of his reign. [37] Billerbeck-Jeremias, “Der Untergang Niniveh’s,” in Delitzsch and Haupt’s _Beiträge zur Assyriologie_, III., p. 113. [38] Nahum ii. [39] See below, p. 120. [40] Abydenus (apud Euseb., _Chron._, I. 9) reports a marriage between Nebuchadrezzar, Nabopolassar’s son, and the daughter of the Median king. [41] 2 Kings xxiii. 29. The history is here very obscure. Necho, met at Megiddo by Josiah, and having slain him, appears to have spent a year or two in subjugating, and arranging for the government of, Syria (_ibid._, verses 33-35), and only reached the Euphrates in 605, when Nebuchadrezzar defeated him. [42] The reverse view is taken by Wellhausen, who says (_Israel u. Jüd. Gesch._, pp. 97 f.): “Der Pharaoh scheint ausgezogen zu sein um sich seinen Teil an der Erbschaft Ninives vorwegzunehmen, während die Meder und Chaldäer die Stadt belagerten.” [43] See above, p. 20, n. 37. [44] I. 106.