. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. which rested on marble pillars so large, that three menwith their arms stretched out could hardly reach around one of them. The floorof the porches was paved with different colored marble. One of the porches wascalled Solomons, because it stood over a very high wall which Solomon hadbuilt up from the valley below. These porches made a beautiful covered walkfor the people in hot or stormy weather; while in pleasant weather they walkedupon their flat roofs, from which they had a view of the temple, the city, andthe mountains that
. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. which rested on marble pillars so large, that three menwith their arms stretched out could hardly reach around one of them. The floorof the porches was paved with different colored marble. One of the porches wascalled Solomons, because it stood over a very high wall which Solomon hadbuilt up from the valley below. These porches made a beautiful covered walkfor the people in hot or stormy weather; while in pleasant weather they walkedupon their flat roofs, from which they had a view of the temple, the city, andthe mountains that were around Jerusalem. The Jews did not go into the temple itself to worship; only the priests wereallowed to go there. The people worshipped in the courts of the temple, andwhen they said they were going up to the temple, they meant they were goingup to its courts. The way up to these, on the top of mount Moriah, was by highflights of steps. Herod had eighteen thousand men at work on the temple and its courts, and it took him over nine years to build them. 212. THE MACCABEES FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS AND AN ARMY GATHERS AROUND THEM. 213
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