A dictionary of the . the word generally signifiesthe residence of any man of wealth orprominent social position. Matt. 26 : 3 ;Luke 11: 21; John 18 : 15. The palace of Phil. 1 : 13 is the barrack of thePraetorian camp attached to the emperorspalace in Rome, on the Palatine. Theemperor was praetor or commander-in-chief; so the barrack of his body-guard was the praetorium. The Romangovernors occupied Herods palace inJerusalem. The most interesting building of thiskind mentioned in the 0. T. is the pal-ace erected by Solomon. 1 Kgs. 7 : occupied an area of about 150,000square fee
A dictionary of the . the word generally signifiesthe residence of any man of wealth orprominent social position. Matt. 26 : 3 ;Luke 11: 21; John 18 : 15. The palace of Phil. 1 : 13 is the barrack of thePraetorian camp attached to the emperorspalace in Rome, on the Palatine. Theemperor was praetor or commander-in-chief; so the barrack of his body-guard was the praetorium. The Romangovernors occupied Herods palace inJerusalem. The most interesting building of thiskind mentioned in the 0. T. is the pal-ace erected by Solomon. 1 Kgs. 7 : occupied an area of about 150,000square feet, consisted of several inde-pendent structures—the house of theforest of Lebanon, the hall of judgment,the porch, etc.—and took thirteen yearsto build. Besides the description givenof this building in First Kings, there isanother by Josephus, but they remained637 PAL PAL almost unintelligible as long as theprinciples of Greek or Egyptian archi-tecture were applied to them, while theinvestigations of the ruins of the pal-. Grouud-plan of Solomons Palace. aces in Nineveh and Persepolis havethrown much light on the subject. PALAli (judge), the son of Uzai,who assisted Nehemiah in restoring thewalls of Jerusalem. Neh. 3 : 25. PALESTINE [land of sojourners),a country east of the Mediterranean Sea,and sacred alike to Jew, Mohammedan,and Christian. See Maps at the end ofthe volume. Name.— Palestine —or Palestina,which has become the most common namefor the Holy Land—is found only threetimes in our version of the Bible, : 14; Isa. 14 : 29, 31, and in the 0. the Hebrew name elsewhererendered Philistia. Ps. 60 : 8 ; 87 :4; 108 : 9; Zeph. 2 : 5. etc. The term,therefore, originally referred only to thecountry of the Philistines, and in itsGreek form is so used by name is also applied to the wholeland of the Hebrews by Josephus, Philo,and by Greek and Roman writers. Its638 first and native name was 12 : 5 ; 16 : 3 ; Ex. 15 : 15 ; Jud. 3
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