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following way : — There may have been some uncertainty as to the 

 exact duration of this monarch's reign owing to the want of agree- 

 ment as to the precise time, in the original Je\\ash Chronicles, from 

 which the writers of the Book of Kings copied. There are 

 evidently marks of a different hand in verses 32, 33, and by no 

 means have we a right to assume that the same writer penned all 

 the historic events recorded in the fifteenth chapter. 



One general remark I would make, and it is this — that we ought 

 not to take it for granted that where there is a discrepancy between 

 the Assyrian monuments and the Jewish records, that the former 

 are invariahly accurate. 



