302 II. Chron. xxxv. 20, _when he had set the Temple again in order_.

303 Or Nechoh or Neco as in our own versions: Heb. {~HEBREW LETTER NUN~}{~HEBREW LETTER KAF~}{~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{~HEBREW LETTER HE~} or {~HEBREW LETTER NUN~}{~HEBREW LETTER KAF~}{~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}.

304 "H. G. H. L.," p. 151.

305 II. Chron. xxxv. 21. This may be only the reflection of later Jewish
piety on so perplexing a disaster; but it rings like fact.

306 II. King xxiii. 29, _as soon as he saw him_. For other records of
Necoh's northward march see Appendix II.

307 The idea that Josiah fought Necoh, as an Assyrian vassal (Benzinger
on II. Kings xxiii. 28-30) is, of course, quite improbable, even if
Nineveh did not fall till 606. But if the latest datum is correct
that Nineveh fell in 612 (see Appendix I) it is utterly groundless.

308 See above, p. 149.

309 xxvi. 2, xxxvi. 9.

310 Whether the sacrifices of children in Hinnom had been resumed, vii.
31 ff., is uncertain; yet this passage may well belong to
Jehoiakim's reign.

311 Greek omits and renders the following _I_ and _my_ by _thou_ and
_his_.

312 Using the Greek, Duhm, Cornill and Skinner render this quatrain
thus:--

Did not thy father eat and drink,
And do himself well?
Yet he practised justice and right,
Judged the cause of the needy and poor.

313 ii. 8, 31, v. 30, 31, vi. 13, 14, 19, etc.; see pp. 106, 154, etc.

314 xx. 10.

315 See above, pp. 147 ff.

316 Many take the conditional clauses in vii and xxvi to be later
insertions (e.g. Skinner, 169 f.). But it was natural to the malice
of his foes to distort Jeremiah's conditional, into an absolute,
threat, and in xxvi. 13 he corrects them. My translation follows the
Greek version, and omits the Hebrew additions which are found in our
English versions.

317 Both text and versions add here _and all the people_; but this may
be the careless insertion of a copyist, for in what follows the
people are with Jeremiah.

318 So 34 MSS., and Syr. Vulg. and Targ.

319 Hebrew adds _against this city and_.

320 Hebrew adds _and all his mighty men_.

321 So Greek; Hebrew _the king sought_.

322 Hebrew adds a name (_El-nathan, son of Ackbor_) and repeats.

323 II. Kings xxii. 12 ff.; Jer. xxxix. 14, xl. 5, 6.

324 The designations of the title differ;