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fonant to the tenor of the infcription. I am there- 
fore inclined to believe, that the word ’nK'l ought to 
be confidered as in regimen, or conftrudion ; and 
that the proper name "IDNIDJh abdasar, is un- 
derftood after the laffc mentioned term. Indances of 
fuch an ellipfis as this occur, in psal. lxxiv. 19. 
isai. xiv. 6. See. and have been produced by Buxtorf, 
in the piece (13) referred to here. To which we 
may add, that the perfon of the verb TOy drongly 
countenances, at lead, if it does not give an abfolute 
fan&ion to, what has been here propofed to the 
condderation of the learned, 
VI. 
The proper name ‘"iDNHDjh in the fecond line of 
the infcription, was pronounced, as I apprehend, by 
the orientals abdasar, or abdeser, not abdas- 
sar. This is rendered not a little probable by the 
proper names asar-haddon and tiglath— pie— 
eser, the Scimech neither in asar nor eser there 
having received a dagefch from the Maforites. The 
fame (14) point is alfo confirmed by the Septuagint. 
It likewile appears from the Etrufcan ^esar, which is 
evidently the fame word with the Phoenician and 
Chaldee asar, or eser, and in common with it 
denotes god. That asar, or eser, in • general 
iignified god, is allowed by a (15) learned writer j 
(13) Johan. Buxtorf .Thefaur. Grammat. Ling. Sanfi. Hcbr. 
p. 363. Bafileae, 1663. 
(14) 2 King. xv. 29. xix. 37. Isai. xxxvii. 38. Ezr. iv. 2. 
Vid. etiam Matth.. Hiller. Onomajl. Sacr. p. 607, 608. 
(15) Matth. Hiller. Onomaji. Sacr. p. 596. Tubingae, 1706. 
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