[401] 1 Kings, xvi, 18.

[402] 1 Samuel, xxxi, 12, 13 and 1 Chronicles, x, 11, 12.

[403] The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, pp. 201-2.

[404] Babylonian and Assyrian Religion, pp. 57-8.

[405] Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 121.

[406] Babylonian and Assyrian Religion, p. 86.

[407] At Carchemish a railway bridge spans the mile-wide river ferry which Assyria’s soldiers were wont to cross with the aid of skin floats.  The engineers have found it possible to utilize a Hittite river wall about 3000 years old—­the oldest engineering structure in the world.  The ferry was on the old trade route.

[408] Deuteronomy, xxvi, 5

[409] Pr. u as oo.

[410] The chief cities of North Syria were prior to this period Hittite.  This expansion did not change the civilization but extended the area of occupation and control.

[411] Garstang’s The Land of the Hittites, p. 349.

[412] “Burgh of Tukulti-Ninip.”

[413] Article “Celts” in Encyclopaedia Britannica, eleventh ed.

[414] The Wanderings of Peoples, p. 41.

[415] Crete, the Forerunner of Greece, p. 146.

[416] Pr.  Moosh’kee.

[417] “Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor (Crete)?” Amos, viii, 7.

[418] A History of Civilization in Palestine, p. 58.

[419] Pinches’ translation.

[420] I Samuel, xiii, 19.

[421] A History of Civilization in Palestine, p. 54.

[422] 1 Kings, iii, 1.

[423] Ibid., ix, 16.

[424] 1 Kings, v, 1-12.

[425] Ibid., vii, 14 et seq.

[426] Ibid., x, 22-3.

[427] Indian Myth and Legend, pp. 83-4.

[428] Finn and His Warrior Band, pp. 245 et seq. (London, 1911).

[429] Also rendered Ashur-na’sir-pal.

[430] A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, G.S.  Goodspeed, p. 197.

[431] Discoveries at Nineveh, Sir A.H.  Layard (London, 1856), pp. 55, 56.

[432] “Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem.” Solomon’s Song, vi, 4.

[433] 2 Chronicles, xii, 15.

[434] 1 Kings, xiv, 1-20.

[435] Ibid., 21-3.

[436] 2 Chronicles, xii, 1-12.

[437] 2 Chronicles, xiii, 1-20.

[438] Ibid., xiv, 1-6.

[439] 1 Kings, xv, 25-6.

[440] 1 Kings, xv, 16-7.

[441] Ibid., 18-9.

[442] Ibid., 20-2.

[443] 1 Kings, xvi, 9-10.