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[ When Assyria became mistress of the Upper Syria, the Orontes valley, and the kingdom of Israel, she could have strangled the Phoenician land commerce at a moment’s notice.]
14130 [ Is. xxiii. 2-8.]
14131 [ Eponym Canon, p. 64.]
14132 [ Eponym Canon, pp. 117-120.]
14133 [ Ibid. p. 123, ll. 1-5.]
14134 [ Ibid. p. 120, l. 28.]
14135 [ In B.C. 720. (See Eponym Canon, p. 126, ll. 33-35.)]
14136 [ Ezek. xxviii. 14.]
14137 [ Menander ap. Joseph. Ant. Jud. ix. 14, § 2; Eponym Canon, p. 131.]
14138 [ Eponym Canon, p. 132.]
14139 [ Menander, l.s.c.]
14140 [ Joseph, Ant. Jud. l.s.c. ’Επήλθε πολέμων την τη Συριαν πάσαν και Φοινικήν.]
14141 [ Ibid.]
14142 [ A slab of Sennacherib’s represents the Assyrian army entering a city, probably Phoenician, at one end, while the inhabitants embark on board their ships at the other (Layard, Monuments of Nineveh, 1st series, pl. 71; Nin. and its Remains, ii. 384).]
14143 [ Menander, l.s.c.]
14144 [ Compare Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iii. 357, and Lortet, La Syrie d’aujourd’hui, p. 128.]
14145 [ Menander, ut supra.]
14146 [ This folows from his taking refuge there when attacked by Sennacherib (Eponym Canon, p. 136).]
14147 [ Since Sennacherib calls him persistently “king of Sidon” (ibid. p. 131, l. 2; p. 135, ll. 13, 17), not king of Tyre.]
14148 [ It was the same army which lost 185,000 men by miracle in one night (2 Kings xix. 35).]
14149 [ 2 Kings xix. 23.]
14150 [ Eponym Canon, p. 134, l. 11.]
14151 [ Records of the Past, i. 35.]
14152 [ Eponym Canon, p. 132.]
14153 [ Ibid.]
14154 [ Eponym Canon, p. 132, l. 14; p. 136, ll. 14, 19. “Tubaal” is probably for Tob-baal, “Baal is good,” like “Tabrimon” for Tob-Rimmon, “Rimmon is good” (1 Kings xv. 18), and “Tabeal” for Tob- El, “God is good” (Is. vii. 6).]
14155 [ Eponym Canon, p. 132, ll. 15, 16.]
14156 [ Ibid. ll. 19, 20.]
14157 [ From the fact that Abd-Milkut is king of Sidon at the accession of Esarhaddon (Records of the Past, iii. 111).]
14158 [ Abd-Melkarth is one of the commonest of Phoenician names. It occurs, either fully, or in the contracted form of Bod-Melkarth, scores of times in the inscriptions of Carthage. The meaning is “servant of Melkarth.”]
14159 [ Records of the Past, iii. 112.]
14160 [ Ancient Monarchies, ii. 186.]
14161 [ Rec. of the Past, iii. 111, 112.]
14162 [ Eponym Canon pp. 139, 140.]
14163 [ Ibid. p. 140, Extract xxxviii. ll. 1-3.]
14164 [ Eponym