King of Assyria] This Catalogue we finde in Scripture of the Kings of Assyria; Pul or Phul, in the dayes of Menachem: so here, and 2 King. XV 19. Tiglath-Pileser, in the dayes of Pekah, and Achaz; so here, and 2 King. XV. 29. and XVI. 7, 10. Jareb, Hos. V. 13. and X. 16. Sargon, Esay XX. 1. Shalmanesar, called Shalman, Hos. X. 14. Who took Hoshea, and Samaria, 2 King. XVII. 3, 4. and XVIII. 9, 10. or Enemessar, Tobit. l. 2, 15. Sennacharib, who came against Hezekiah, 2 King. XVIII. 13. Esarhaddon, or Asnapper, Esay XXXVII. 38. 2 King. XIX. 37. Ezra IV. 2, 10. called also Sarchedonus, Tobit I. 22. And another King of Assyria, against whom Pharaoh-Necho King of Egypt, fights at Carchemish by Euphrates, in the last year of King Josiah, 2 King. XXIII. 29. 2 Chron. XXXV. But many leave out Iareb, as no proper name of a King; and make Sargon to be the same with Senna harib. And some place Iareb before Pul; and Sargon after Shalmanesar. And no doubt there were many Kings of Assyria, it being the first Monarchy, before Pul; though their names be not in Scripture. Though the Assyrians take the name from Ashur the sonne of Shem, Gen. X. 22. 1 Chron. I. 17. yet the Kingdome seemes to be raised among them by the posterity of Cush, the sonne of Cham, Gen. X. 6,—11.