Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . because the lion was thestandard of Judah.^ A lion stood also on each arm ofthe throne itself. The back ended above in a half-circle.^ The seat itself was a golden bull, its headturned over its shoulder; probably the ox or bull ofEphraim.^ This was the throne of the House of David — the seat ofjudgment.^ Stand-ing in a porch/it preserved thetraditional customof sitting for judg-ment at the gate/as David had beenwont to do of old,and as had beendone before himfrom the remotestpast. Other buildings,resting
Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . because the lion was thestandard of Judah.^ A lion stood also on each arm ofthe throne itself. The back ended above in a half-circle.^ The seat itself was a golden bull, its headturned over its shoulder; probably the ox or bull ofEphraim.^ This was the throne of the House of David — the seat ofjudgment.^ Stand-ing in a porch/it preserved thetraditional customof sitting for judg-ment at the gate/as David had beenwont to do of old,and as had beendone before himfrom the remotestpast. Other buildings,resting like thoseof the palace itselfon substructions of immense squared stones, wererequired for the harem, for the members and atten-dants of the court, and for the entertainment of distin-guished visitors. A special mansion for SolomonsEgyptian queen was also erected, of squared stonethroughout, resting on courses of stones of 12 and15 feet in length, and entered by a porch copied in * Gen. xlix. 9. Isa. xxix. 1. Ezek. ix. 2. * Ewald, vol. iii. p. 341. ^ i Kings vii. 8. * 2 Sam. XV. An Egvptiaw Theonb. SOLOMON. 399 miniature from tbat of the Judgment Hall; the pride andglory of the whole mass of structures. She had livedat first in some mansion in the City of David,^ the kingscrupling to receive a heathen, though she was his queen,into his father^s palace, which had once been hallowed bythe presence of the Ark.^ But these palaces, however splendid, could not beregarded as complete, especially in the East, without greatgardens, displaying every triumph of horticultural kings of the Ten Tribes could easily create such de-lights in the fertile neighbourhood of Samaria and Jezreel,but Solomon alone attempted to make a royal ^^paradise^amidst the bare hills of Judea. Streams of clear waterhad been brought from a distance in covered aqueducts,and gathered in great reservoirs for the supply of thetemple and of the city, besides feeding conduits whichafforded the necessary m
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