Note 21 — Quest. XII., XIII. (continued 4)

(Thus the Phoenician Annals, &c.) See what Josephus cites out of them, Book VIII. Chap. 2. of his Ancient History; where he adds, “that if any one would see the Copies of those Epistles which Solomon and Hirom wrote to each other, they may be procured of the public Keepers of the Records at Tyrus.” (We must be cautions how we believe this; however, see what I have said upon 1 Kings v. 3.) There is a remarkable place concerning David, quoted by Josephus, Book VII. Ch. 6. of his Ancient History, out of the IVth of Damascenus’s History.