Evelyn Abbott - The History of Antiquity, Vol. 3 (of 6)

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 289.

Oppert, loc. cit. 7, 27; Ménant, loc. cit. p. 192, 195, 200, 201, 205, 207.

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 188.

Above, p. 93; Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 46-51.

Ménant, "Babylone," p. 157.

The Annals in Oppert, loc. cit. 7, 51-53. The Fasti in Ménant, "Annal." p. 186, 187.

Cylinder Bellino in Ménant, "Annal." p. 229.

G. Rawlinson, "Monarch," 22. 179, n. 5.

Ménant, loc. cit. 229, 230.

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 212.

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 228, 229.

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 211.

Year of Nabudurussur.

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 308.

G. Smith, "Assurbanipal," p. 318.

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 224.

Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 9, 23; Ménant, loc. cit. p. 235.

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 237.

Joseph. "Antiq." 10, 1, 4.

In Euseb. "Chron." 1, p. 35, ed. Schöne.

Euseb. "Chron." 1, p. 27, ed. Schöne.

Cf. E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 213 ff.

In Ménant, "Annal." p. 231.

E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 219 ff.

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 298; Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, "Annal." p. 215.

G. Smith's Cylinder, "Disc." p. 298; Ménant reads 2800 prisoners on the Cylinder Taylor.

Cylinder Bellino.

Cylinder Bellino, in Ménant, p. 228; Cylinder G. Smith, "Disc." p. 302; Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, p. 227; "Records of the Past," 7, 61.

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 308; Ménant, "Annal." p. 219, "Records of the Past," 7, 63.

The fourth campaign of Sennacherib, the establishment of Assurnadin cannot be later than the year 698 B.C. , since the Cylinder Smith, which dates from the year 697 B.C., concludes with these events, and then speaks only of the buildings; G. Smith, "Disc." p. 308.

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 220, 221.

In Ménant, p. 232.

An inscription of this king found at Susa is explained by Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 82.

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 232.

Above, p. 114; Annals of Sargon, in Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 45.

Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, p. 222.

Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, p. 232, 233; Talbot, "Records of the Past," 1, 78.

Inscription of Nebbi Yunus in Ménant, loc. cit. p. 232. An inscription of Exarhaddon repeats the events of this war: Suzub, "of unknown race, a lower chieftain," came to Babylon, and was raised to be king; Umman Minanu was gained by the treasures of Bit Saggatu; the Parsua joined, etc.; G. Smith, "Disc." p. 315.

Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 9, 27, 28; Ménant, "Babylone," p. 166. Vol. II. p. 40.

2 Kings xx. 12.

Merodach Baladan was, as has been shown (p. 113), driven out of Babylon in the year 703 B.C.; it is certain that he was ruler there in 704 B.C. If the Books of the Kings do not mention his embassy to Hezekiah till after the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrians, they show by the announcement of Isaiah to Hezekiah, which they put after the embassy of Merodach Baladan thus: "He will be saved out of the hand of the Assyrians" (2, xx. 6), that the embassy was at Jerusalem before the campaign of Sennacherib; cf. Isa. xxxix.

Isa. xxii. 2; 2 Chron. xxxii. 4, 5.

Isa. xxx. 2, 3, 6.

Isa. xxxi. 1-3.

Isa. xxx. 9, 10.

Isa. xxviii. 12.

Isa. xxviii. 15. The deceit is no doubt to be explained by the secrecy of the negotiations with Egypt.

Isa. xxx. 15, 16.

Isa. xxx. 12, 13.

Isa. xxviii. 22.

Isa. xxix. 1.

Isa. x. 28-32.

Isa. xxi. 1, 2, 5-7.

It is the third warlike enterprise of Sennacherib, which for the following reasons cannot be placed earlier than 702 B.C. The cylinder Bellino dates from the seventh month of the third year of Sennacherib, i. e. from the year 703 / 702; it concludes with the subjugation of Ellip and the tribute of the Medes. Sennacherib, therefore, may have first marched to Syria in the year 701 B.C. The inscription of the bulls narrates this campaign, which extends to the establishment of Assurnadin in Babylon; so the cylinder Smith, which dates from the year 697 B.C. Hence, as the year of Hezekiah's accession is fixed for the year 728 B.C. (p. 16, n. ), the siege of Jerusalem does not fall in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah, in which the Books of Kings place it, but in the twenty-eighth year.

I combine these three accounts, which differ but little from each other.

Cylinder Smith, "Disc." p. 304.

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 304.

Inscription of the bulls in E. Schrader, "K. A. T." l. 31, s. 187.

E. Schrader, "K. A. T." 171 ff. G. Smith, "Disc." p. 303 ff. Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 7, 61 ff.

Isa. xxii. 9, 10, 11.

2 Kings xviii. 13 ff.; 2 Kings xix. 8-13; Isa. xxxvi., xxxvii.; 2 Chron. xxxii.