of the sea—­perhaps the island Tyre, or more probably Cyprus.  Sennacherib did not attempt any pursuit, but was content to receive the submission of the various cities over which Luliya had ruled, and to establish in his place, as tributary monarch, a prince named Tubal.  He then received the tributes of the other petty monarchs of these parts, among whom are mentioned Abdilihat king of Avrad.  Hurus-milki king of Byblus.  Mitinti king of Ashdod, Puduel king of Beth-Ammon, a king of Moab, a king of Edom, and (according to some writers) a “Menahem king of Samaria.”  After this Sennacherib marched southwards to Ascalon, where the king, Sidka, resisted him, but was captured, together with his city, his wife, his children, his brothers, and the other members of his family.  Here again a fresh prince was established in power, while the rebel monarch was kept prisoner and transported into Assyria.  Four towns dependent upon Ascalon, viz., Razor, Joppa, Beneberak, and Beth Dagon, were soon afterwards taken and plundered.

Sennacherib now pressed on against Egypt.  The Philistine city of Ekron had not only revolted from Assyria, expelling its king, Path, who wwas opposed to the rebellion, but had entered into negotiations with Ethiopia and Egypt, and had obtained a promise of support from them.  The king of Ethiopia was probably the second Shebek (or Sabaco) who is called Sevechus by Manetho, and is said to have reigned either twelve or fourteen yeats.  The condition of Egypt at the time was peculiar.  The Ethiopian monarch seems to have exercised the real sovereign power:  but native princes were established under him who were allowed the title of king, and exercised a real though delegated authority over their several cities and districts.  On the call of Ekron both princes and sovereign had hastened to its assistance, bringing with them an army consisting of chariots, horsemen, and archers, so numerous that Sennacherib calls it “a host that could not be numbered.”  The second great battle between the Assyrians and the Egyptians took place near a place called Altaku, which is no doubt the Eltekeh of the Jews, a small town in the vicinity of Ekron.  Again the might of Africa yielded to that of Asia.  The Egyptians and Ethiopians were defeated with great slaughter.  Many chariots, with their drivers, both Egyptian and Ethiopian, fell into the hands of the conqueror, who also took alive several “sons” of the principal Egyptian monarch.  The immediate fruit of the victory was the fall of Altaku, which was followed by the capture of Tamna, a neighboring town.  Sennacherib then “went on” to Ekron, which made no resistance, but opened its gates to the victor.  The princes and chiefs who had been concerned in the revolt he took alive and slew, exposing their bodies on stakes round the whole circuit of the city walls.  Great numbers of inferior persons who were regarded as guilty of rebellion, were sold as slaves.  Padi, the expelled king, the friend to Assyria, was brought back, reinstated in his sovereignty, and required to pay a small tribute as a token of dependence.