The Greatest Empires & Civilizations of the Ancient East: Egypt, Babylon, The Kings of Israel and Judah, Assyria, Media, Chaldea, Persia, Parthia & Sasanian Empire. George Rawlinson
[ Herod. i. 105 raises the suspicion that Askelon, which was nearer Egypt than Ashdod, may have belonged to Psamatik I.]
14203 [ Ibid. ii. 159.]
14204 [ 2 Kings xxiii. 19; 2 Chron. xxxiv. 6.]
14205 [ History of Ancient Egypt, ii. 228.]
14206 [ Judg. iv. 15; v. 19.]
14207 [ 2 Chron. xxxv. 21.]
14208 [ See Jer. xlvi. 2.]
14209 [ Berosus, Fr. 1; 2 Kings xxiv. 7.]
14210 [ Herod. iv. 42.]
14211 [ Ibid. ii. 112.]
14212 [ Berosus, l.s.c.]
14213 [ Habakkuk, i. 6-10.]
14214 [ Jer. xlvi. 3, 4.]
14215 [ Ibid. verse 5.]
14216 [ Ibid. verse 6.]
14217 [ Jer. xlvi. 10.]
14218 [ Ibid. verse 16.]
14219 [ Ibid. verse 21.]
14220 [ Stanley, Lectures on the Jewish Church, ii. 455.]
14221 [ Ibid.]
14222 [ Berosus, l.s.c. The extreme haste of the return is indicated by the fact, which is noted, that Nebuchadnezzer himself, with a few light troops, took the short cut across the desert, while his army, with its prisoners, pursued the more usual route through the valley of the Orontes, by Aleppo to Carchemish, and then along the course of the Euphrates.]
14223 [ See History of Ancient Egypt, ii. 480.]
14224 [ Habak. i. 6.]
14225 [ Menander ap. Joseph. Contr. Ap. i. 21.]
14226 [ Ezek. xxvii. 8, 9, 11.]
14227 [ So Joseph. l.s.c. Mr. Kenrick disputes the date on account of Ezek. xxvi. 2, which he thinks must refer to the final siege and capture of Jerusalem; but the reference may be to the breaking of the power of Judæa, either by Neco in B.C. 608 or by Nebuchadnezzar in B.C. 605.]
14228 [ 2 Kings xxiv. 2; 2 Chr. xxxvi. 6.]
14229 [ Ezek. xxviii. 21-23.]
14230 [ Menander, l.s.c.]
14231 [ Ezek. xxvi. 8-12.]
14232 [ Isaiah xliii. 14; Æschyl. Pers. l. 54.]
14233 [ As Kenrick (Phoenicia, p. 390).]
14234 [ See especially, ch. xxviii. 2, 12.]
14235 [ Ibid. verses 2-10, 17, 18.]
14236 [ Ezek. xxvii. 26.]
14237 [ Herod. vii. 44, 96, 100, 128.]
14238 [ Ibid. ii. 161; vii. 98; Ezra iii. 7.]
14239 [ Menander, Fr. 2.]
14240 [ Herod. ii. 182.]