FOOTNOTES
1 In Hebrew the word Abir means bull, mighty, and hence God. It is connected with the Egyptian abr (a bull), from which Apis is derived. Conf. Jeremiah xlvi. 15.
2 Levit. xvii. 7. The sending of the scape-goat to Azazel marked the abomination in which this lascivious cult was held.
3 Conf. Ezekiel xxiii. 7, 8.
4 Micah vi. 4, mentions also Miriam, with her brothers, as a deliverer.
5 The situation of Sinai is not to be sought in the so-called Sinaitic peninsula, but near the land of Edom, on the confines of which was the desert of Paran. Neither Jebel Musa, with the adjacent peaks of Jebel Catherine and Ras-es-Sufsafeh, nor Mount Jerbal, was the true Sinai. See "Monatsschrift," by Fränkel-Graetz, 1878, p. 337.
6 Joshua x. 12, 13.
7 Deut. viii. 7–9.
8 Deut. xxxiii. 13, 14.
9 Amos iv. 13.
10 Judges vi. 13.
11 Judges iii. 8 and 10 must be read "king of Edom" (אדום) instead of Aram (ארם).
12 Judges xi. 7.
13 Genesis xlix. 16, 17.
14 See Psalm lxxviii. 60–64; Jeremiah vii. 12.
15 Jeremiah xv. 1; Psalms xcix. 6.
16 I Samuel xiv. 12.
17 I Samuel xiv. 45.
18 I Samuel xv. 12 to 33. In the 32d verse read mar mar hammaveth.
19 I Samuel xv. 28.
20 Amos vi. 4–6.