None of the kings of Assyria, down to the time of Esar-haddon, had ever penetrated so far.

Bazu lay beyond Khazu, which was the name of the stony tract, and Bazu had for its chief town a city called Yedih, which was under the rule of a king named Laile.

It is thought, from the combinaqon of these names, and from the general description of the region--of its remoteness and of the way in which it was reached--that it was probably the district of Arabia beyond Nedjif which lies along the Jebel Shammer, and corresponds closely with the modern Arab kingdom of Hira.

Esar-haddon boasts that he marched into the middle of the territory, that he slew eight of its sovereigns, and carried into Assyria their gods, their treasures, and their subjects; and that, though Laile escaped him, he too lost his gods, which were seized and conveyed to Nineveh.

Then Laile, like the Idumaean monarch above mentioned, felt it necessary to humble himself.