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52 TEE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND TEE 0. T.
of so-called I'gibi-tablets. The diflferent modes of writing
the name which have been handed down are Avil-Marduk
and A-vl-lu-Marduk, See Boscawen in Transs. of
the Soc. of Bibl. Archaeol. VI, 1. 1878.
FIRST BOOK OF CHRONICLES.
V. 26. Then the God of Israel aroused the spirit of
Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pilneser
(piOt>B~T\ih7\) etc. Ofcourse IDJ^D stands by mistake for
IDN^O, in just the same way as r\i^T\ arose from the
original form n'?Jn merely by a transposition of letters.
This mode of writing the king's name is opposed by the
Books of Kings and by the inscriptions alike, and is due
either to the Chronicler or to a copyist. See also the
comments on 2 Kings XV, 19. 20 and compare the
critical discussion of this passage in Keilinsch. u. Gesch.
pp. 435 foil.
N"iri Hard, a corrupt reading. See Schrader, Art. Hara
in Riehm's Handworterb. des Biblischen Alterthums, and
Keilinsch. u. Geschichtsforschung p. 430. Compare the
notes on 2 Kings XVII, 6. XVIII, 11.
366 SECOND BOOK OF CHRONICLES.
IX. 16. Three hundred [shekels] of gold he put on
one shield. In the parallel passage in the Books of Kings
(1 Kings X, 17) there stands "three minas". It would
appear from this that the Chronicler reckoned the mina
at 100 shekels. That was the valuation of the later, Greek
period. The Hebrews of the earlier time valued the mina
(as money) at 50 shekels. According to Hitzig, in his
commentary on Ezek. XLV. 12, we should read DI^D in