. A dictionary of the Bible .. . 30, but it might very probably bethe 20 cubits which incidentally Josephus (xv. 11,§3) mentions as sinking down in the failure of thefoundations, but was so left till the days of can br little doubt but that the part referredto in this paragraph was some such superstructureas that shown in tlie last woodcut; and the incidentalmention of 20 cubits is much more to be trustedthan Josephus heights generally are, which he seemssvstematically to have exaggerated when he wasthinking about them. Jachin and Bonz.—There are no features con-nected with the Temp
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . 30, but it might very probably bethe 20 cubits which incidentally Josephus (xv. 11,§3) mentions as sinking down in the failure of thefoundations, but was so left till the days of can br little doubt but that the part referredto in this paragraph was some such superstructureas that shown in tlie last woodcut; and the incidentalmention of 20 cubits is much more to be trustedthan Josephus heights generally are, which he seemssvstematically to have exaggerated when he wasthinking about them. Jachin and Bonz.—There are no features con-nected with the Temple of Solomon which havegiven rise to so much controversy, or been so diffi-cult to explain, as the form of the two pillars ofbrass which were set up in the porch of the has even been supposed that they were not pillarsin the ordinaiy sense of the term, but obelisks ; forthis, however, theie does not appear to be anyauthority. The porch was 30 teet in width,and a roof of that extent, even if composed of a TEMPLE 1457.
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