Note 83 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)

The Biblical account (1 Kings ix. 18) as to the building of the town Thamar in Idumaea by king Solomon has only been transferred to Tadmor by a misunderstanding doubtless old; at all events the erroneous reference of it to this town among the later Jews (2 Chron. viii. 4, and the Greek translation of 1 Kings, ix. 18) form the oldest testimony for its existence (Hitzig, Zeitschr. der deutschen morgenl. Gesellschaft, viii. 222).