Note 498 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES

David had the Philistines for suzerain, as Solomon had Egypt, cf. Stanley A. Cook, in Encyc. Bibl. s.v. David, and Maspero, Hist. anc. des Peuples de l’Orient, 1904, pp. 391, 422. Their successors, too, up to the Captivity seem to have always been tributaries to Assyria, Chaldaea, or Egypt. After that event, they were of course vassals to the Persian and Macedonian Empires.