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2Ki_13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
Ver. 1. In the three and twentieth year of Joash.] In the tenth year of his reign, the city of Carthage was built by Queen Dido, as Josephus reporteth out of the annals of the Tyrians. {a} This discrediteth Virgil’s poem of the hot affection between Dido and Aeneas, dead above two hundred years before.
{a} Lib. i. contra Appion.