. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Snuffers.] [* [Spoons.] that the inside of the pronaos was also covered with gold;from it a grand pair of folding-doors nine feet four inchesand a half wide opened into the temple. These doors werealso overlaid with gold, embossed in rich patterns ofcherubim, and knops and open flowers; both pairs of doorshad ornamented hinges of gold, and before the doors of theoracle hung a veil embroidered with cherubim, in blue andpurple and crimson. Hiram, the architect (who was also a king),f had se
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Snuffers.] [* [Spoons.] that the inside of the pronaos was also covered with gold;from it a grand pair of folding-doors nine feet four inchesand a half wide opened into the temple. These doors werealso overlaid with gold, embossed in rich patterns ofcherubim, and knops and open flowers; both pairs of doorshad ornamented hinges of gold, and before the doors of theoracle hung a veil embroidered with cherubim, in blue andpurple and crimson. Hiram, the architect (who was also a king),f had sentover from Tyre his clerk of the works, who superintendedthe building till it became necessary to set up the two greatcolumns of the pronaos; these were of the usual proportionsof Egyptian columns, being five and a half diameters high, and as these gave the great cha-racteristic feature to the building, Solomon sent an em]:)assy to fetch the architect from Tvreto superintend the moulding and casting of these columns, Avhich were intended to be ofbrass; and observe how conspicuous is the ide
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