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.
474
Eustath. ad "Odysseam," 4, 617.
475
Vol. i. p. 352.
476
De Luynes, "Essai sur la numismatique des satrapies," p. 69.
477
Above, p. 188.
478
Curt. 4, 8. Pliny ("Hist. Nat." 5, 17) puts the distance from the mainland at 700 paces (double paces).
479
On coins of Tyre of a later time we find two rocks, which indicate the position of the city. Ezekiel (xxvi. 4, 5) threatens that she shall be a naked rock in the sea for the spreading of nets. Joseph. "c. Apion," 8, 5, 3; Diod. 17, 46; Arrian, 2, 21, 23. Renan's view ("Mission de Phénicie," p. 546 ff.) on the Agenorion has been adopted; some others of his results appear to be uncertain.
480
Vol. i. 367; Menander in Joseph. "c. Apion." 1, 17, 18.
481
Joseph. "Antiq." 8, 13, 2.
482
Joseph. loc. cit.
483
In order to bring the reigns of Josephus into harmony with his total, the total, which is given twice, must be retained. Hence nothing remains but to replace, as Movers has already done, the three and six years given by Josephus for Balezor and Mutton by the eight and 25 years given by Syncellus.
484
On the identity of the names Acerbas, Sichaeus, Sicharbas, Sicharbaal, Serv. "ad Æneid," 1, 343; Movers, "Phoeniz." 2, 1, 355.