[520] 2 Kings, xvii, 3-5.

[521] Isaiah, xx, 1.

[522] 2 Kings, xvii, 6.

[523] 2 Kings, xvii, 16-41.

[524] The people carried away would not be the whole of the inhabitants—­only, one would suppose, the more important personages, enough to make up the number 27,290 given above.

[525] Passing of the Empires, pp. 200-1.

[526] Those who, like Breasted, identify “Piru of Mutsri” with “Pharaoh of Egypt” adopt the view that Bocchoris of Sais paid tribute to Sargon.  Piru, however, is subsequently referred to with two Arabian kings as tribute payers to Sargon apparently after Lower Egypt had come under the sway of Shabaka, the first king of the Ethiopian or Twenty-fifth Dynasty.

[527] Isaiah, xx, 2-5.

[528] Commander-in-chief.

[529] Isaiah, xx, 1.

[530] The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, T.G.  Pinches, p. 372.

[531] Isaiah, xxxvii, 9.

[532] Isaiah, xxix, 1, 2.

[533] 2 Chronicles, xxxii, 9-17.

[534] 2 Kings, xix, 6, 7.

[535] 2 Kings, xix, 35, 36.

[536] Smith-Sayce, History of Sennacherib, pp. 132-5.

[537] A History of Sumer and Akkad, p. 37.

[538] Isaiah, xxxvii, 8-13.

[539] 2 Kings, xxi, 3-7.

[540] 2 Kings, xxi, 16.

[541] Hebrews, xi, 36, 37.

[542] 2 Chronicles, xxxiii, 11-3.  It may be that Manasseh was taken to Babylon during Ashur-bani-pal’s reign.  See next chapter.

[543] Pronounce g as in gem.

[544] Nahum, i, ii, and iii.

[545] Isaiah, xlvi, 1; xlvii, 1-15.

[546] Nahum, iii, 2, 3; ii, 3.

[547] Goodspeed’s A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, p. 348.

[548] Nahum, iii, 8-11.

[549] Ptolemy’s Kineladanus.

[550] Ezra, iv, 10.

[551] Nahum, iii and ii.

[552] 2 Kings, xxiii, 29.

[553] Ibid., 33-5.

[554] Nebuchadrezzar is more correct than Nebuchadnezzar.

[555] 2 Kings, xxiv, 7.

[556] 2 Chronicles, xxxvi, 6.

[557] 2 Kings, xxiv, 1.

[558] 2 Kings, xxiv, 8-15.

[559] Jeremiah, lii, 3.

[560] Jeremiah, lii, 4-11.

[561] The Laminations of Jeremiah, i, 1-7.

[562] Jeremiah, lii, 31-4.

[563] Daniel, v, I et seq.

[564] Psalms, cxxxvii, 1-6.

[565] Ezra, i, 1-3.

[566] Herodotus, i, 183; Strabo, xvi, 1, 5; and Arrian, vii, 17.

[567] Strabo, xvi, 1-5.