Nevertheless, that there was a god of peace among the Semites, is proved by the name of the Assyrian god Šulmanu or Shalman, a component part of the name Shalmaneser, the Assyrian Šulmanu-ašarid. It is noteworthy that there were no less than four Assyrian kings of this name, and that it means “the god Shalman is chief.” _Šulmanu_ or _Šalmanu nunu_, “Shalman the fish,” also occurs, as the name of one of the gods of the city Tedi, or, as Prof. Sayce reads it, Dimmen-Silim (better Temmena-silima), but this latter reading would only be the correct one if the characters Tedi are to be read as an Akkadian group. It is therefore very doubtful whether the element _salim_ in the name of Jerusalem be the name of a god, notwithstanding the love that the peoples of the Semitic East naturally had for the blessings which the word implies. It formed part, as in Arabic at the present day, of many a greeting, and is one of the most noteworthy points of the Semitic languages. A poetic composition, apparently of the time of the dynasty of Babylon—probably contemporaneous with Abraham—seems to read as follows— Mazzazam išu, It has the resting-place, Padanam išu— It has the roadway, Bab êkalli šalim; The gate of the palace is sound— Šulmu parku šakin. Perfect (?) soundness exists; Martum šalmât The gall is sound, Ubanum šalmât The peak is sound, Ḫašû (?) u libbu (?) Entrails and heart šalmu are sound— Sinšerit tiranu. 12 (are) the coverings (?). Tertum immer izzim (If) the viscera (?) of a healthy sheep (?) Šalmât Be sound, Mimma la tanakkud. Naught shalt thou fear. The above probably represents the signs which the _extispices_ or “entrails-inspectors” looked for when working out their forecasts. A better translation than “peace” for _salim_ would therefore probably be “safe and sound,” “intact,” or something similar (see the 13th edition of Gesenius’s Lexicon, edited by Prof. F. Buhl, with the collaboration of Socin and Zimmern, also Fried. Delitzsch, _Assyrisches Handwörterbuch_), but the old and more poetic expression “peace,” “to be at peace,” may be held to sufficiently express the meaning.