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SECOND BOOK OF KINGS XVIII. 285
my rule, and he tendered obedience. 65. In the course of
mywarlike enterprise I advanced against Beth-Dagon. 66.
Joppa, Bene-berak, Azuru, the cities of Zidka, which to rae
68. at the proper time had not submitted, I captured, car-
ried away their spoil.
69. The chief officers [Smith "priests" (?)], the great
ones, the people of Ekron, 70. who Padi, their king, who
had kept faith and oath 71. to Assyria, had cast into iron
bonds, and to Hezekiah 72. of Juda had delivered [who shut
him up in the dark (prison)] : 73. their heart was afraid.
The kings of Aegypt, the archers, the chariots, the horses
of the kings of Miluhhi, 75. countless troops they sum-
moned up, and they marched 76. forth to their aid. In
presence of 7 7. Altakli the battle array was set against me.
They summoned 78. their troops (to battle). Confiding in
Asur, my lord, 79. I fought with them and inflicted on
them a defeat. 80. The commander of the chariots and the
sons of the Aegyptian king 81. together with the commander
of the chariots of the king of Miluhhi 82. my hand took
prisoner alive in the midst of the battle. The towns Altakti
(and) 83. Timnath I attacked, captured, carried forth their
booty. Col. Ill, 1. Against the town Ekron I advanced; the
chief officers, 2. the great ones, who had made rebellion, I
slew; 3. on stakes of the town's encircling wall I impaled
their corpses. 4. The sons (inhabitants) of the town who had
practised wickedness and mischief, 5. I counted as prisoners;
the remaining inhabitants, 6. who had not practised sin or
aught execrable, who had not made themselves guilty of the 293
transgression of the former, 7. their amnesty I announced.
I caused that Padi, 8. their king, Jerusalem 9. should leave,
installed him on his throne of sovereignty over them 11.
and imposed on him the tribute of my rule.