The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament; - The Search For ...

GENESIS XLY. XXII. XXIIL 127
38. X^'QV Ammon is named in the inscriptions (mat or
ir) Bit-Amm4n, written Am-ma-na(ni) (Sanh. ibid.:,
Tigl.-Pil. ibid.; Asarhad. I Rawl. 48, I line 7), once also
(II Rawl. 53, 12b) we have (ir) Am-ma-a-[naJ. This
designation Bit-AmmS,n follows the analogy of names like B 1 1-
Humri (Samaria), Bit-Jakin, just as if Aramon were a
person. Indeed we sometimes also find the determinative of
person prefixed to the name Amman. Keilinsch. u. Gesch.
p. 366 note. In the first and third passage Pu-du-ilu is
mentioned as king of ^loab. With this name comp. "^NniQ
Numbers XXXIV. 28. In the second passage Sanibu* is
described as such. This word I am not in a position to inter-
pret. Lastly, in an inscription of the elder Salmanassar (II)
Ba-'-sa is also recorded as tlie name of an Ammonite
king. In this form one recognizes the name of the Northern
Israelite king NK^i'? (1 Kings XV. 33); see III Rawl. 8
col. II. 95.
XXII. 21. 113 Buz, second son of Nachor, ilH his fifth
son, are connected by Delitzsch Parad. p. 307, with con-
siderable probability, with the B&zu and Hazti of the
cuneiform inscriptions, two districts lying in the immediate
neighbourhood of Northern-Arabia; comp. Jer. XXV. 23^
Job XXXII. 2.
XXIII. 16. ^CSn-PN ^y)p>^ "and he weighed out the
money'\ Exactly the same mode of expression is to be
found in Assyrian. We read II Rawl. 13. 44 d: kaspai42
i-sa-kal ''the money he weighs out."
The word ^j^K' shekel has not yet been made out phone-
* Fr. Delitzsch, Parad. p. 294, holds that the name of the kiug of
Ammon Sanibu is to be identified with SXJii'S *^be name of the king
of Adma in Gen. XIV. 2.