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DEUTERONOMY XXXII. XXXIII. JOSHUA X. XL 149<br />

with reference to Hizkia (Ha-z a- ki-j a-u) as ir sarru-<br />

tl-su "city of his rule" i. e. "his residence." Compare<br />

also with <strong>the</strong> Assyrian representation of <strong>the</strong> name<br />

<strong>the</strong> Aramaic >'. 'S a,;o] (along with <strong>the</strong> Biblo-Chaldaean<br />

n^'^^'iT). Likewise <strong>the</strong> name of <strong>the</strong> city Samaria came to<br />

<strong>the</strong> Assyrians in its Aramaic form (see on 1 Kings XVl.<br />

24). Both may be explained from <strong>the</strong> political <strong>and</strong> geo-<br />

graphical relations involved.<br />

5. 6 (all) kings of <strong>the</strong> Amorites, comp. XXIV. 8. 12. 15.<br />

This name, so frequently employed by <strong>the</strong> Aegyptians for<br />

Kanaan <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kanaanites, is never to be met with in<br />

Assyrian. Was <strong>the</strong>re no people with such a name any longer<br />

existing in <strong>the</strong> 9*^ century B. C, or did this race settle<br />

more in <strong>the</strong> South-Western part of Palestine? Comp.<br />

Ed. Meyer in Zeitschrift fiir die Alt. Test. Wissenschaft I,<br />

1881, pp. 122 foil. Respecting <strong>the</strong> identity of <strong>the</strong> Amorites<br />

<strong>and</strong> Kanaanites see also Steinthal in Zeitschrift fiir Volker-<br />

psychologie XII. p. 267.<br />

XI. 22. nj^; Gazuj well known city of <strong>the</strong> Philistines, is<br />

frequently mentioned in <strong>the</strong> cuneiform <strong>inscriptions</strong> in <strong>the</strong><br />

form Ha-zi-ti* (it, at Assyrian feminine ending = Hebr.n-)^<br />

less frequently in <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r form Ha-az-zu-tu (Hazzut)i62<br />

Ha-az-za-at(Hazzat) IIlRawl. 10, 19. 20 (in an inscrip-<br />

tion of Tiglath Pileser II). At <strong>the</strong> time of this last mentioned<br />

monarch, as well as of his successor Sargon (Sarg. Khorsab. 25<br />

foil. &c.), <strong>the</strong>re are mentioned as kings of Gaza H a - n u - n u,<br />

Ha-a-nu-(u)-nu "Hanno", Hebr. pjn "<strong>the</strong> favoured one"<br />

(2 Sam. X. 1 ; 1 Chron. XIX. ; 2) in <strong>the</strong> time of Sanherib,<br />

* <strong>The</strong> Hebrew ^ is in o<strong>the</strong>r cases as well represented in Assyrian<br />

by h, comp. Humri ^"lOi/ C^®® below), HajapS, Haiap&, HD'!/ (^^®<br />

on Gen. XXV. 4) &c. &c.

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