The Essential Works of George Rawlinson: Egypt, The Kings of Israel and Judah, Phoenicia, Parthia, Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylon, Persia, Sasanian Empire & Herodotus' Histories. George Rawlinson
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1495 [ Ibid. ix. 27.]
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).]
1497 [ Mela. iii. 1; Plin. H. N. iv. 22, § 115; Catull. xx. 30, &c.]
1498 [ See Plin. H. N. iii. 3; xxxiii. 6; Polyb. x. 10; Strab. iii. 2, § 3 and 10.]
1499 [ Herod. iv. 191; Plin. H. N. viii. 11.]
14100 [ Hanno, Periplus, p. 6.]
14101 [ Ibid. pp. 13, 14.]
14102 [ 1 Kings ix. 26.]
14103 [ 1 Kings x. 11.]
14104 [ The case is excellently stated in Mr. Twistleton’s article on OPHIR in Dr. Smith’s Dictionry of the Bible, vol. ii.]
14105 [ As almug or algum which is “the Hebraised form of a Deccan word for sandalwood” (Stanley, Lectures, ii. 157).]
14106 [ 1 Kings ix. 28.]
14107 [ Contr. Ap. i. 18.]
14108 [ Kenrick argues in favour of Κιτίου (Phoenicia, p. 357).]
14109 [ See Encycl. Britann. ad voc. PHOENICIA, xviii. 807.]
14110 [ Menander, Fr. 2.]
14111 [ Ibid.]
14112 [ 1 Kings xvi. 31.]
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.]
14114 [ Menander, l.s.c. Aüza, which at a later date became Auzen, is mentioned by Tacitus (Ann. iv. 25) and Ptolemy (Geograph. iv. 2).]
14115 [ The Greek lamda, Λ, readily passes into delta Δ. Baal-azar is found as a Phoenician name in an inscription (Corp. Ins. Semit. i. 335, no. 256).]
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.]
14117 [ See Justin, Hist. Phil. xviii. 5.]
14118 [ Menander, Fr. 1.]
14119 [ Kenrick, Phoenicia, pp. 363-367.]
14120 [ Contr. Ap. i. 18.]
14121 [ Ancient Monarchies, ii. 84-89.]
14122 [ Histoire Ancienne, pp. 347, 348.]
14123 [ Ancient Monarchies, ii. 90-99.]
14124 [ Ancient Monarchies, ii. 102-106; Eponym Canon, pp. 108-114.]
14125 [ Eponym Canon, p. 112, l. 45.]
14126 [ Ibid. p. 108, l. 93.]
14127 [ Ibid. p. 115, l. 14.]
14128 [ Ibid. p. 120, ll. 33-35.]