[Footnote 1496:  See 1 Kings x. 22.  The distinctness of this navy from the one which brought gold from Ophir has been maintained by Dean Stanley (Lectures on the Jewish Church, ii. 156) and the Rev. J. Hammond (Pulpit Commentary, Comment on 1 Kings, p. 213), as well as by the present writer (Speaker’s Commentary, ii. pp. 545, 546).]

[Footnote 1497:  Mela. iii. 1; Plin. H.  N. iv. 22, Sec. 115; Catull. xx. 30, &c.]

[Footnote 1498:  See Plin. H.  N. iii. 3; xxxiii. 6; Polyb. x. 10; Strab. iii. 2, Sec. 3 and 10.]

[Footnote 1499:  Herod. iv. 191; Plin. H.  N. viii. 11.]

[Footnote 14100:  Hanno, Periplus, p. 6.]

[Footnote 14101:  Ibid. pp. 13, 14.]

[Footnote 14102:  1 Kings ix. 26.]

[Footnote 14103:  1 Kings x. 11.]

[Footnote 14104:  The case is excellently stated in Mr. Twistleton’s article on OPHIR in Dr. Smith’s Dictionry of the Bible, vol. ii.]

[Footnote 14105:  As almug or algum which is “the Hebraised form of a Deccan word for sandalwood” (Stanley, Lectures, ii. 157).]

[Footnote 14106:  1 Kings ix. 28.]

[Footnote 14107:  Contr.  Ap. i. 18.]

[Footnote 14108:  Kenrick argues in favour of {Kitioi} (Phoenicia, p. 357).]

[Footnote 14109:  See Encycl.  Britann. ad voc.  PHOENICIA, xviii. 807.]

[Footnote 14110:  Menander, Fr. 2.]

[Footnote 14111:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 14112:  1 Kings xvi. 31.]

[Footnote 14113:  The Assyrians probably found their way into Phoenicia through the gap in the mountain line between Bargylus and Lebanon.  Botrys occupied a strong position between this gap and the southern Phoenician cities, Gebal, Sidon, and Tyre.]

[Footnote 14114:  Menander, l.s.c.  Aueza, which at a later date became Auzen, is mentioned by Tacitus (Ann. iv. 25) and Ptolemy (Geograph. iv. 2).]

[Footnote 14115:  The Greek lamda, {L}, readily passes into delta {D}.  Baal-azar is found as a Phoenician name in an inscription (Corp.  Ins.  Semit. i. 335, no. 256).]

[Footnote 14116:  See Gesen. Mon.  Phoen. p. 410. Mattan, “a gift,” was the name borne by Athaliah’s high priest of Baal (2 Kings xi. 18).  It is found as an element in several Phoenician names, as Mattan-elim (Corp.  Ins.  Semit. i. 298, no. 194); Mattan-Baal (ibid. p. 309, no. 212), &c.]

[Footnote 14117:  See Justin, Hist.  Phil. xviii. 5.]

[Footnote 14118:  Menander, Fr. 1.]

[Footnote 14119:  Kenrick, Phoenicia, pp. 363-367.]

[Footnote 14120:  Contr.  Ap. i. 18.]

[Footnote 14121:  Ancient Monarchies, ii. 84-89.]

[Footnote 14122:  Histoire Ancienne, pp. 347, 348.]

[Footnote 14123:  Ancient Monarchies, ii. 90-99.]