[75] On the site of Borsippa, Vol. I. 291, and on Nebuchadnezzar's buildings at the temple of Nebo, at Borsippa, III. 385. [76] Pliny, "H. N." 6, 30. [77] Sir Henry Rawlinson spoke in the Asiatic Society on Nov. 17, 1879, of a Babylonian cylinder brought home by Rassam, which, though broken, is said to give an account in thirty-seven legible lines of the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, and to contain a genealogical tree of Cyrus. As yet I have not been able to learn anything further. [Cf. Cheyne, "Isaiah," Vol. II., Essay xi.] [78] "Pol." 3, 1, 12. [79] Oppert et Ménant, "Docum. Juridiq." p. 266. [80] Herod. 3, 159. [81] "Cyri inst." 7, 5, 34, 69, 70. [82] Xenoph. "Anab." 2, 4. Vol. III. 366. [83] Xenoph. "Cyri inst." 1, 1, 4; 7, 4, 1. On Hiram, above, p. 67; Joseph. "c. Apion," 1, 21; Polybius, 16, 40. The statement of Polybius might be referred to the campaign of Cambyses against Egypt, if the supremacy of Cyrus in Syria were not proved by other evidence, as Ezra iii. 7, and the return of the Jews. Herodotus also would not have omitted the siege of Gaza in his detailed description of the march of Cambyses against Egypt, if it had not taken place until then. The general expression in Herodotus (3, 34) cannot outweigh all these proofs; it only says with the exaggerated tone of flattery that Cambyses first placed a fleet on the sea, and claims the subjugation of Cyprus for him. As a fact Cyrus left the islands of Anatolia, except Chios and Lesbos, which voluntarily submitted, uninjured, and did not call on them for a fleet, for which there were many good reasons from the point of view of a Persian king. [84] Herod. 3, 19; 5, 104, 110; 7, 96, 98, 128; Xenoph. "Ages." 2, 30; Diod. 16, 41. The rebellion of Sidon in 351 B.C. again reversed the relations. [85] 1 Chron. iii. 17-19. [86] Ezra ii. 36-39. [87] Ezra ch. ii. As Babylon was conquered in the summer of 538, the first year of Cyrus in Babylon reaches to the summer of 537; Ezra i. 1, 3; Beros. fragm. 15, ed. Müller. [88] Deut. Isa. xlviii. 20. [89] Deut. Isa. lii. 7. [90] Deut. Isa. lii. 11. [91] Deut. Isa. lv. 12. [92] Deut. Isa. xlviii. 21. [93] Deut. Isa. li. 11. [94] Deut. Isa. liv. 6-10. [95] Deut. Isa. xlix. 19; lviii. 12. [96] Deut. Isa. liv. 11. [97] Deut. Isa. lx. 5. [98] Deut. Isa. lxvi. 12. [99] Deut. Isa. xlix. 17. [100] Deut. Isa. lx. 4-9. [101] Deut. Isa. liv. 2. [102] Deut. Isa. xlix. 22, 23. [103] Ewald, "Volk. Israel." 3, 91. [104] Ezra ii. 59-63. [105] Ezra iii. 8-13. [106] Ps. cxxix.-cxxxii. [107] Ezra iv. 1-5, 24. It is obvious that verse 24 must follow on verse 5 in chap. iv. The verses 6-23 treat of things which happened under Xerxes and Artaxerxes, and they have got into the wrong place. CHAPTER IX. THE KINGDOM OF CYRUS.