[Footnote 937:  Upper Mesopotamia is indicated by one of its chief cities, Haran (Ezek. xxvii. 23).]

[Footnote 938:  Ezek. xxvii. 6.  Many objects in ivory have been found in Cyprus.]

[Footnote 939:  Ibid. verse 7.  The Murex brandaris is still abundant on the coast of Attica, and off the island of Salamis (Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iii. 881).]

[Footnote 940:  Strab. iii. 2, Sec. 8-12; Diod.  Sic. v. 36; Plin. H.  N. iii. 3.]

[Footnote 941:  See Gen. xxxvii. 28.]

[Footnote 942:  Isaiah xxi. 13.]

[Footnote 943:  Ibid. lx. 6.]

[Footnote 944:  Ibid. verses 6, 7.]

[Footnote 945:  Heeren, Asiatic Nations, ii. 93, 100, 101.]

[Footnote 946:  1 Kings v. 11; 2 Chr. ii. 10.]

[Footnote 947:  Ezek. xxvii. 17.]

[Footnote 948:  Ezra iii. 7.]

[Footnote 949:  Acts xii. 20.]

[Footnote 950:  2 Chron. l.s.c.; Ezra l.s.c.; Ezek. xxvii. 6, 17.]

[Footnote 951:  Ezek. l.s.c.]

[Footnote 952:  Gen. xxxvii. 28.]

[Footnote 953:  Strab. xvi. 2, Sec. 41.]

[Footnote 954:  Ezek. xxvii. 18.]

[Footnote 955:  Strab. xv. 3, Sec. 22.]

[Footnote 956:  So Heeren (As.  Nat. ii. 118).  But there is a Helbon a little to the north of Damascus, which is more probably intended.]

[Footnote 957:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 958:  See Amos, iii. 12, where some translate “the children of Israel that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and upon a damask couch.”]

[Footnote 959:  Ezek. xxvii. 16.]

[Footnote 960:  The Hebrew terms for Syria {...} and Edom {...} are constantly confounded by the copyists, and we must generally look to the context to determine which is the true reading.]

[Footnote 961:  Herod. i. 1.]

[Footnote 962:  Ibid. ii. 112.]

[Footnote 963:  Ch. xxvii. 7.]

[Footnote 964:  Egyptian pottery, scarabs, seals, figures of gods, and amulets, are common on most Phoenician sites.  The Sidonian sarcophagi, including that of Esmunazar, are of an Egyptian stone.]

[Footnote 965:  Herod. iii. 5, 6.]

[Footnote 966:  Ibid. iii. 107; Strab. xvi. 4, Sec. 19; Diod.  Sic. ii. 49.]

[Footnote 967:  Theophrast. Hist.  Plant. ix. 4.]

[Footnote 968:  Wilkinson, in the author’s Herodotus, iii. 497, note 6; Heeren, As.  Nat. ii. 95.]

[Footnote 969:  Is. lx. 7; Her. xlix. 29.]

[Footnote 970:  Ezek. xxvii. 21.]

[Footnote 971:  Ezek. xxvii. 20.]

[Footnote 972:  Ex. xxvi. 7; xxxvi. 14.]

[Footnote 973:  Ezek. xxvii. 15, 19-22.]

[Footnote 974:  See Heeren, Asiatic Nations, ii. 96.]

[Footnote 975:  Ibid. pp. 99, 100.]

[Footnote 976:  Gerrha, Sanaa, and Mariaba were flourishing towns in Strabo’s time, and probably during several centuries earlier.]