31 The evidence for this is the Moabite stone, but the reading of the inscription is doubtful. See S. R. Driver, in _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, _s.v._ “Mesha,” vol. iii. 3041 _sqq._; _id._, _Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel_, Second Edition (Oxford, 1913), pp. lxxxv., lxxxvi., lxxxviii. _sq._; G. A. Cooke, _Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, No. 1, pp. 1 _sq._, 6. 32 2 Kings viii. 7, 9, xiii. 24 _sq._; Jeremiah xlix. 27. As to the god Hadad see Macrobius, _Saturn_, i. 23. 17-19 (where, as so often in late writers, the Syrians are called Assyrians); Philo of Byblus, in _Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C. Müller, iii. 569; F. Baethgen, _Beiträge zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte_ (Berlin, 1888), pp. 66-68; G. A. Cooke, _Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, Nos. 61, 62, pp. 161 _sq._, 164, 173, 175; M. J. Lagrange, _Études sur les Religions Sémitiques_2 (Paris, 1905), pp. 93, 493, 496 _sq._ The prophet Zechariah speaks (xii. 11) of a great mourning of or for Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddon. This has been taken to refer to a lament for Hadad-Rimmon, the Syrian god of rain, storm, and thunder, like the lament for Adonis. See S. R. Driver’s note on the passage (_The Minor Prophets_, pp. 266 _sq._, _Century Bible_); W. W. Graf Baudissin, _Adonis und Esmun_, p. 92. 33 Josephus, _Antiquit. Jud._ ix. 4. 6. 34 Genesis xxxvi. 35 _sq._; 1 Kings xi. 14-22; 1 Chronicles i. 50 _sq._ Of the eight kings of Edom mentioned in Genesis (xxxvi. 31-39) and in 1 Chronicles (i. 43-50) not one was the son of his predecessor. This seems to indicate that in Edom, as elsewhere, the blood royal was traced in the female line, and that the kings were men of other families, or even foreigners, who succeeded to the throne by marrying the hereditary princesses. See _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, ii. 268 _sqq._ The Israelites were forbidden to have a foreigner for a king (Deuteronomy xvii. 15 with S. R. Driver’s note), which seems to imply that the custom was known among their neighbours. It is significant that some of the names of the kings of Edom seem to be those of divinities, as Prof. A. H. Sayce observed long ago (_Lectures on the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians_, London and Edinburgh, 1887, p. 54). 35 G. A. Cooke, _op. cit._ Nos. 62, 63, pp. 163, 165, 173 _sqq._, 181 _sqq._; M. J. Lagrange, _op. cit._ pp. 496 _sqq._ The god Rekub-el is mentioned along with the gods Hadad, El, Reshef, and Shamash in an inscription of King Bar-rekub’s mortal father, King Panammu (G. A. Cooke, _op. cit._ No. 61, p. 161). 36 Virgil, _Aen._ i. 729 _sq._, with Servius’s note; Silius Italicus, _Punica_, i. 86 _sqq._ 37 Ezekiel xxviii. 2, 9.