Hazael is followed in the Books of Kings by Benhadad III. That "Achabbu from the land of Sir'lai" is correctly read in the inscription of Kurkh is an ascertained fact. [450] The prophetic revision explains the overthrow of Ahab by the fact that he had spared Benhadad in the previous war, when Jehovah had delivered him into his hand. [451] Ninth and tenth year of Shalmanesar II. [452] According to Nöldeke, "Inschrift des Mesa," the upper city of Dibon. [453] 1 Kings xix. 15; 2, viii. 7-15. [454] Joel iv. 19; Amos i. 11, 12. [455] 2 Chron. xxi. 16-18; Amos i. 6; cf. _infra_, p. 260. n. 2. [456] 2 Kings ix. 14. [457] 2 Kings x. 12-14. [458] 2 Kings xi. 1-3. [459] 2 Kings x. 30. "To the fourth generation" may have been added by the revision _post eventum_. [460] 2 Kings x. 18-27. [461] E. Schrader, "Keilinschriften und A. T." s. 105. [462] 2 Kings x. 32. [463] 2 Kings xiii. 25. [464] 2 Kings viii. 12. [465] Amos i. 3. [466] 2 Kings xiii. 5. [467] See below, p. 326. [468] Of this date and the time of Amaziah I shall treat in the first chapter of Book IV. [469] 2 Kings xiii. 25. [470] 2 Kings xi. 3-20. [471] They fall about 830 B.C. The minority of the king is clear, and the verses iv. 4 ff. points to the incursion of the Philistines into Judah, mentioned p. 252. [472] 2 Kings xii. 17, 18. The occurrence is recorded after the twenty-third year of Joash, and the twenty-third year was 815 B.C. [473] The subjugation of Edom can only have taken place after the year 803 B.C., _i.e._ after the march of Bin-nirar II. to the sea-coast. Bin-nirar enumerates Edom among the tribute-paying tribes of Syria. On this and on the date of Uzziah's accession, cf. Book IV. chap. 2. CHAPTER XI. THE CITIES OF THE PHENICIANS.