of the Past," 7, 82.
264
In Ménant,
265
Above, p. 114; Annals of Sargon, in Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 45.
266
Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, p. 222.
267
Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, p. 232, 233; Talbot, "Records of the Past," 1, 78.
268
Inscription of Nebbi Yunus in Ménant,
269
Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 9, 27, 28; Ménant, "Babylone," p. 166. Vol. II. p. 40.
270
2 Kings xx. 12.
271
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.
272
Isa. xxii. 2; 2 Chron. xxxii. 4, 5.
273
Isa. xxx. 2, 3, 6.
274
Isa. xxxi. 1-3.
275
Isa. xxx. 9, 10.
276
Isa. xxviii. 12.
277
Isa. xxviii. 15. The deceit is no doubt to be explained by the secrecy of the negotiations with Egypt.
278
Isa. xxx. 15, 16.
279
Isa. xxx. 12, 13.
280
Isa. xxviii. 22.
281
Isa. xxix. 1.
282
Isa. x. 28-32.
283
Isa. xxi. 1, 2, 5-7.
284
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,
285
I combine these three accounts, which differ but little from each other.
286
Cylinder Smith, "Disc." p. 304.
287
G. Smith, "Disc." p. 304.
288
Inscription of the bulls in E. Schrader, "K. A. T." l. 31, s. 187.
289
E. Schrader, "K. A. T." 171 ff. G. Smith, "Disc." p. 303 ff. Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 7, 61 ff.
290
Isa. xxii. 9, 10, 11.
291
2 Kings xviii. 13 ff.; 2 Kings xix. 8-13; Isa. xxxvi., xxxvii.; 2 Chron. xxxii.
