. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... Pillar conformably withthe architectural taste of the Herodian age. A little to the north is the reputed tomb of King Jehosha-phat, from whom the valley takes its name. It is a subterra-nean sepulchre, extending several feet into the mountain. Theentrance is through an ornamental portal, consisting of fourcolumns and a pediment, adorned with foliage, cut in the faceof the perpendicular
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... Pillar conformably withthe architectural taste of the Herodian age. A little to the north is the reputed tomb of King Jehosha-phat, from whom the valley takes its name. It is a subterra-nean sepulchre, extending several feet into the mountain. Theentrance is through an ornamental portal, consisting of fourcolumns and a pediment, adorned with foliage, cut in the faceof the perpendicular rock. Believing it contains a copy oftheir Law, and other valuable manuscripts, the Jews guardthis mansion of the dead with ceaseless vigils. But this cannot be the tomb of the king Avhose memory it bears, as it isdistinctly recorded that Jehoshaphat was buried with his fa-thers in the city of David.^ The false location of his tomb hasgiven a false name to the valley itself Both Josephus andthe sacred writers call it the Valley of the Kidron, whichsignifies Vale of Filth, from the refuse matter that flowedinto it from the cess-pool in the rock beneath the Temple. 2 Sam., xviii., 18. = 2 Chion., xxi., FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA. 89 Nor can this be the place to which the prophet alludes wheuhe declares that God will gather all nations into the Valley ofJehoshaphat for judgment.^ Its limits are not equal to suchan assemblage. The name Jehoshaphat meaning Jehovahjudgeth, the allusion is metaphorical, the royal name beingapplied to some unknown valley—the rendezvous of the ar-raigned nations. A few paces to the south of Absaloms Pillar is the tra-ditional tomb of James the Just, where he concealed himselfduring the interval between the crucifixion and resurrectionof our Lord, and where he was finally interred after his mar-tyrdom. It is a cavern fifty feet long, fifteen deep, and tenbroad, with an entrance high up in the face of the rock con-sisting of four Doric columns. Just sou
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