ands from
dissensions by just rule of a free country; who gives this his compassion
from heaven, like the God Adonis, and causes all lands to rest through his
mercy. This is the message of a servant to his Lord. Lo! I hear the
gracious messenger of the King who reaches his servant, and the good
utterance which comes from the hands of the King my Lord for his servant;
and the utterance it makes clear, since the arrival of the messenger of
the King my Lord. Does not he make it clear?--the utterance is clear. The
lands of my fathers behold it records. Lo! the utterance of the King comes
to me, and I rejoice exceedingly and (my heart has risen?) from day to day
because the land is not ... Behold I heard the gracious messenger from my
Lord, and all my land has been afraid as to my Lord's countenance. Lo! I
heard the good utterance; and the gracious messenger who reaches me,
behold he said, O King my Lord, that the region (is) to be established by
the presence of many soldiers; and the servant says for his Lord that my
plain is my land over against my highlands, over against the plain of my
cities. He has borne the order of the King my Lord listening to the King
his Lord, and has served him (in his integrity?), and the Sun-God he has
proclaimed before him; and he makes clear the good utterance from the
hands of his Lord, and does he not listen to the order of his Lord? The
portion of his town his Lord has divided. His word none shall overthrow in
all the lands forever. Behold (this is) the duty that he heard from his
Lord. His city will rest, will rest from overthrowing his utterance for
all time. Thou art the Sun-God whom he has proclaimed before him; and the
decision which shall set at rest is lasting for one. And because she
judges that the King my Lord is just our land obeys--the land that I am
given. This Abimelec says to the Sun-God. My Lord I am given what appears
before the King my Lord. And now the city _Zarbitu_(292)is to be guarded
by the city of Tyre (_Tsuru_) for the King my Lord."

31 B. M.--"To the King the Sun ... thus says _Abimel_(_ec_) ... seven times
and seven times at the feet ... I am the dust from ... below ... and the
King the Sun forever ... The King spoke to his servant (and) to his
servant my comrade: he has granted that extension be given, and as to
waters for (his servant's) drinking And they did not as the King my Lord
has said; and we arrive at no fulfilment. And let the King counsel his
servant