Catalogue Entry: THEM00189

Chapter 4: Of the two Contemporary Empires of the Babylonians and Medes

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (London: 1728).

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[1] 2 King. xxiii. 29, &c.

[2] Eupolemus apud Euseb. Præp. l. 9. c. 39. 2 King. xxiv. 2, 7.

[3] Dan. i. 1.

[4] Dan. i. 2. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 6.

[5] Jer. xlvi. 2.

[6] Apud Joseph. Antiq. l. 10. c. 11.

[7] Beros. apud Joseph. Ant. l. 10. c. 11.

[8] 2 King. xxiv. 12, 14. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 10.

[9] 2 Kings xxiv. 17. Ezek. xvii. 13, 16, 18.

[10] Ezek. xvii. 15.

[11] 2 King. xxv. 1, 2, 8. Jer. xxxii. 1, & xxxix 1, 2.

[12] Canon. & Beros.

[13] 2 King. xxv. 27.

[14] Hieron. in Isa. xiv. 19.

[15] 2 King. xxv. 27. 29, &c.

[16] Dan. v. 2.

[17] Jos. Ant. l. 10. c. 11.

[18] Herod. l. 1. c. 184, 185.

[19] Philost. in vita Apollonii. l. 1. c. 15.

[20] Jos. cont. Apion. l. 1. c. 21.

[21] Herod. l. 1. c. 189, 190, 191. Xenoph. l. 7. p. 190, 191, 192. Ed. Paris.

[22] Dan. v. 30, 31. Joseph. Ant. l. 10. c. 11.

[23] Æsch. Persæ v. 761.

[24] Herod. l. 1. c. 107, 108. Xenophon Cyropæd. l. 1. p. 3.

[25] Cyropæd. l. 1. p. 22.

[26] Cyropæd. l. viii. p. 228, 229.

[27] Herod. l. 1. c. 73.

[28] Herod. l. 1. c. 106, 130.

[29] Herod. l. 1. c. 103.

[30] Herod. ib.

[31] Jer. xxv.

[32] Herod. l. 1. c. 73, 74.

[33] Herod. Ibid. Plin. l. 2. c. 12.

[34] The Scythians.

[35] Jer. xxvii. 3, 6. Ezek. xxi. 19, 20 & xxv. 2, 8, 12.

[36] Ezek. xxvi. 2. & xxix. 17, 19.

[37] Ezek. xxix. 19. & xxx. 4, 5.

[38] Suid. in Δαρεικός & Δαρεικούς. Harpocr. in Δαρεικός. Scoliast in Aristophanis. Εκκλησιαζουστον. v. 598.

[39] Herod. l. 1. c. 71.

[40] Isa. xiii. 17.

[41] Plin. l. 33. c. 3.

[42] Herod. l. 1. c. 94.

[43] Theogn. Γνωμαι, v. 761.

[44] Ibid. v. 773.

[45] Cyrop. l. 8.

[46] Comment. in Dan. v.

[47] Strabo. l. 16. initio.

[48] Strab. l. 16. p. 745.

[49] Herod. l. 1. c. 192.

[50] Herod. l. 1. c. 178, &c.

[51] Isa. xxiii. 13.

[52] Diod. l. 1. p. 51.

[53] Herod. l. 1. c. 181.

[54] Suidas in Ἀρίσταρχος. Herod. l. 1. c. 123, &c.

[55] Strabo. l. 15. p. 730.

[56] Herod. l. 1. c. 127, &c.

[57] Cyrop. l. 8. p. 233.

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