2 Kings xvii. 31. Tartak.TARTAK, or Thartbac, a false Deity of the Avites. The Rabbins say he had the Shape of an Ass. By pronouncing it Sarsac, Shar-shac. Jer. xxv. 26. li. 40. Sheshac. Athen. l. 14. c. 10. Dio Chry. Orat. 4. de Regno.instead of Tartak, one might easily find under this Name the God Sesak, or Sheshac, of whom Jeremiah speaks in some Places, and whose Feasts were not unknown to the Pagans, under the Name of Saccæa, or Sacea. See what we have said in our Commentary upon Jeremiah.1
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See Ezra iv. 7. 2 Kings xviii. 26. Dan. ii. 4. where the Chaldee Tongue is called Aramean, or Syri- ack. ↩