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it both stately and glorious, it was compassed about with three strong walls, the third wall had ninety towers, the second had fourteen, the old wall had sixty. Agrippa built a fourth wall, ten cubits high, but did not finish it left Claudius Caesar should think he decided to rebel; yet the Jews afterwards built it twenty cubits high, raised a battlement two cubits, and built three towers thereon! their towers were built of White marble, each one being twenty cubits long ten broad, and five thick, so curiously joined, that they seem’d but one stone and the compass of the city from the width to west, was forty three furlongs.
Within the city was the king’s palace surprising all in the world the largeness and workmanship, environed with a wall, which was fifty cubits high, adorned with towers, and beautified with houses
a hundred of the nobility; and in every room were many
temples of gold and silver, and porches adorned with curious pillars; and many pleasant walks with all manner ot trees and fountains which spouted up water, with cisterns and brazen statues, from which ran water continually.
The temple was built upon a rocky mountain, and the place at the top, was not at first big enough for the temple and court she being very steep, but the people every day brought earth there, and they at last made it plain and large enough, and wonderful curiosity and labour, inclosed three walls which were many
days labour with the cost of' all the holy treasure offer’d to God from all parts; the foundation of the temple was three hundred cubits deep; the porches were double supported by many pillars twenty five cubits high, all of one piece of marble; the tops of far so exactly wrought; as astonished the beholders, the porches were thirty cubits broad, and the compass of the temple was six longs; the courts were curiously paved and wrought with all types of stones and the gates were covered with mighty plates of gold only one with Corinthian brass, which for beauty excell’d the
glaze dazling the eyes of all the spectators.
The holy of holies, or Sanctum Sanctoirum; circulate in the midst, twelve stairs to go up to it, the fore part of it was an hundred cubits high, and as many broad, and backwards it was forty cubits each side: it had as it were two shoulders, in height twenty cubits high and twenty five wide, and had no doors to shew that hear was always open, all the fore parts were gilded within and covered with fine gold: the inner part was divided into two rooms, thereof the first might only he seen, which was in height ninety cubits, in length forty and in breadth twenty. Round about the rim was a golden vine, whereon hung grapes in clusters being
six foot long, it had golden gates fifty-five cubits high and sixteen
