Waldo - Sorry for the delay.
I admire your scholarship on this subject, and appreciate the fact that you have thoroughly researched your comments to my answer.
I am now puzzled by the fact that I have two different answers that both claim to accurately describe these historical events.
I am not familiar with any detail from this period of history, and have to rely on the expertise of others to enlighten me, and that includes you.
So, the Bible makes this prophecy, one source says, yes, it happened, and another source says, no, it didn't.
I can only send your comments to the first source, and hopefully await their reply,
Now, that's a fair bit of time consuming typing, but I will endeavour to do just that.
In the meantime, I respect your views, and find myself, for the moment, quite embarrassed by what I have learned, and hoping that there will be a satisfactory explanation.
I shall, for the time being at least, continue munching away on this rather large slice of humble pie.