The Holy Land and the Bible; . orthey are respectively those of the first immigration of the race fromCrete in the patriarchal times, and of the second immigration in thedays of the Judges. Captain Conder, indeed, speaks of the Philistinesas called Cherethites or Crethi, from Keratiyeh, a village stillexisting in the Philistine plain, and of Pelethites as simply equivalentto immigrants—he supposes, from Egypt; but neither of thesedetails disproves the original exodus of the race was from Caphtor,®which is admittedly Crete. The ambition of the great king, true to the spirit of an Oriental,turne
The Holy Land and the Bible; . orthey are respectively those of the first immigration of the race fromCrete in the patriarchal times, and of the second immigration in thedays of the Judges. Captain Conder, indeed, speaks of the Philistinesas called Cherethites or Crethi, from Keratiyeh, a village stillexisting in the Philistine plain, and of Pelethites as simply equivalentto immigrants—he supposes, from Egypt; but neither of thesedetails disproves the original exodus of the race was from Caphtor,®which is admittedly Crete. The ambition of the great king, true to the spirit of an Oriental,turned especially upon the construction of a grand series of rock-hewntombs for himself and his descendants, on the south-west face of theTyropceon Valley.^ There, perhaps, to this day, lie the twelve suc- 1 2 Sam. V. 6. 2 2 Sam. v. 8. Ewalds reading. Koil f >ll(p\vs it. :; 2 Sum. v 11: 1 Chron. xiv. Nfli. iii. Ki. 5 2 Sam. vili. 18: xv. 18; xx. 7, 23; 1 Kiii^s i. :is, 44; 1 Cliion. xviii. 17. 6 Amos Nell. iii. XXIII.] JERUSALEM. 327 cessors of David, from Solomon to Aliaz, witli Jelioiada, the great highpriest, but without Uzziah, who was excUuled Ior his leprosy.^ Thetomb of David was still well known in the time of the Acts of theApostles,- but, according to Josephus, it had been opened, first byIlvrcanus, and then by Herod, to rob it of the treasures which traditionaffirmed Solomon to have buried with his father.^ So early as thethird century after Christ, however, the true site of this acre of royaldust had been lost, and we can ouh- hope that excavation may oneday bring it again to light. Authorities differ as to the position ofSolomons palace, but no less an expert than Dr. Miihlau thinks it wasbuilt on the western side of the Tyropoeon, and thus on Mount Zion.*On the same spot, at a later date, rose also the palace of the Asmougeankings, and that of Agrippa II. Under Solomon the citizens had theglory of Zion increased by the magnificent House of the For
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