Jerusalem Explored Part 47

[Sidenote: Amon buried in same place.]

"And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza." xxi. 26.

(pp. 184, 310.)

[Sidenote: Huldah.]

"So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her." xxii. 14. (pp.

25, 70.)

[Sidenote: Josiah. The graves of the children of the people.]

"And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people." xxiii. 6. (pp. 39, 168.)

[Sidenote: Topheth, Hinnom.]

"And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pa.s.s through the fire to Molech." xxiii. 10. (pp. 21, 310.)

[Sidenote: Places before Jerusalem.]

"And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon," &c. xxiii. 13. (p. 21.)

[Sidenote: Josiah buried.]

"And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre." xxiii.

30. (p. 310.)

[Sidenote: Nebuchadnezzar.]

"At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged." xxiv. 10. (pp. 2, 50.)

"And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land." xxiv. 14. (pp. 2, 50.)

[Sidenote: Gate between two walls. King's garden.]

"And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain." xxv. 4. (pp. 26, 182, 188.)

[Sidenote: Nebuzar-adan came unto Jerusalem.]

"And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem." xxv. 8. (p. 2.)

[Sidenote: Burnt the house of the Lord, &c.]

"And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire."

xxv. 9. (pp. 2, 50.)

[Sidenote: Walls of Jerusalem.]

"And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about." xxv. 10. (p. 2.)

[Sidenote: People that remained.]

"But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen." xxv. 12. (p. 50.)

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[Sidenote: Castle of Zion. City of David.]

"And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither.

Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David."

xi. 5. (pp. 2, 16.)

"And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David." xi. 7. (p. 22.)

[Sidenote: Works of David and Joab.]

"And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city." xi. 8. (pp. 23, 24.)

[Sidenote: Ornan the Jebusite.]

"Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the Lord in the thres.h.i.+ngfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." xxi. 18. (pp. 24, 46.)

"So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight." xxi. 25. (p. 46.)

[Sidenote: David built there an altar, &c.]

"And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering." xxi. 26. (p.

46.)

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[Sidenote: Moriah.]

"Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the thres.h.i.+ngfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." iii. 1.

(pp. 17, 24.)

[Sidenote: House of G.o.d.]

"Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of G.o.d. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits." iii. 3.

(p. 48.)

"And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits." iii. 8. (p. 48.)

[Sidenote: Altar of bra.s.s.]

"Moreover he made an altar of bra.s.s, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof." iv. 1. (p. 49.)

[Sidenote: Solomon buried.]