[728] He was forced to desist by a fearful mortality among the labourers.
[729] _Circ._ B.C. 611-605. Herod., ii. 158, 159, iv. 42. Psamatik, the father of Necho, was perhaps a Lybian. He established his sway over all Egypt displacing the Assyrians.
[730] _Antt._, X. v. 1.
[731] Herod., ii. 158. His father Psamatik had left him an adequate army of natives and mercenaries.
[732] Herodotus says of his ships: Ἁι μὲν ἐπὶ τῇ βορηίῃ θαλάσσῃ ἐποιήθησαν.
[733] Judg. iv. 23; 1 Sam. xxix. 1-11; 1 Kings xx. 26; 2 Kings xxiii. 29; 2 Chron. xxxv. 22; Rev. xvi. 16 (Armageddon). Herodotus confuses it with Migdol (Μάγδολον).
[734] 1 Macc. xii. 49; Jos., _Antt._, XIII. vi. 2.
[735] 2 Chron. xxxv. 20-22.
[736] According to 1 Esdras i. 25-32, "for upon Euphrates is my war."
[737] Klostermann, in 2 Chron. xxxv. 21, reads _bachalôm_, "in a dream," instead of "to make haste."
[738] Gen. xli. 1; Herod., ii. 188; _Records of the Past_, ix. 52.
[739] 2 Kings xviii. 25.
[740] _Antt._, X. v. 1: Τῆς πεπρωμένης οἶμαι εἰς τοῦτ' αὐτόν παρορμησάσης.
[741] Deut. xxviii. 1-8.
[742] Psalm xx. 6, xviii. 29-50.
[743] Lev. xxvi. 36.
[744] 2 Chron. xxxv. 22: "hearkened not _to the words of Necho from the mouth of God_."
[745] "When he had _seen_ him." Comp. 2 Kings xiv. 8.
[746] 1 Esdras i. 25; and LXX., "firmly resolved," "strengthened himself," as in 2 Chron. xxv. 11.
[747] Jos., _Antt._, X. v. 1; and 2 Chron. xxxv. 23; 1 Esdras i. 30.
[748] The fortunes of the Jews again prevailed in this plain in the days of Holofernes (Judith vii. 3); but they were defeated there by Placidus (Jos., _B. J._, IV. i. 8).
[749] Zech. xii. 11-13 (comp. Jer. xxii. 10, 18). No such place as Hadadrimmon is known, though there is a Rummâne not far from Megiddo. Jerome (_Comm. in Zach._) identifies it with a place which he calls Maximianopolis. Wellhausen (_Skizzen_, 192) thinks that the mourning is compared to some wail over the god Hadadrimmon, like the wailing for Tammuz. Jonathan and Jarchi say that Hadadrimmon was the son of Tabrimmon, who opposed Ahab at Ramoth-Gilead.
[750] 2 Chron. xxxv. 24, 25. Jeremiah's elegy has probably perished. It would have been most interesting had it been preserved. Lam. iv. is too vague to have been this lost poem.
[751] Jer. iv. 10.
[752] Jer. xx. 7, 8.