. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . or the sanctity or con-venience of the place chosen.— Tomb of the Kmys. I Of the twenty-two kings of Judah who reigned atJerusalem from 1048 to 590 u. c, eleven (David,Solomon, Eehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshapbat,Ahaziah, Aniaziah, Jotham, Ue/.ekiah, Josiah, withthe good priest Jehoiada) were buried in one hypo-t/eum (= subterranean structure) ill the city ofDavid. Of all these it is merely said that theywere buried in the sepulchres of their lathersor of the kings in the city of David, except oftwo—Asa and lle/i kiah. Two more of these kings(Jehoram
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . or the sanctity or con-venience of the place chosen.— Tomb of the Kmys. I Of the twenty-two kings of Judah who reigned atJerusalem from 1048 to 590 u. c, eleven (David,Solomon, Eehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshapbat,Ahaziah, Aniaziah, Jotham, Ue/.ekiah, Josiah, withthe good priest Jehoiada) were buried in one hypo-t/eum (= subterranean structure) ill the city ofDavid. Of all these it is merely said that theywere buried in the sepulchres of their lathersor of the kings in the city of David, except oftwo—Asa and lle/i kiah. Two more of these kings(Jehoram and Joash) were buried also in the cityof David, but not in the sepulchres of the iii. 16, and Ez. xliii. 7, 9, with the reiteratedassertion of the Books of Kings ami Chroniclesthat these sepulchres were situated in the city ofDavid, h ave no doubt but that they were on Zion,in- the Eastern Hill, and in ihe immediate proximityof the Temple (so Mr. Pergusson, but sec Jkrusa- I LEM, III. § S). Manassch was (2 Chr. xxxiii. 20). Plan of tb9 Timbi oftbe Prophets.—(From De Saulcy.) buried in his own house, i. e. in the garden of hisow n house, in the garden of Uz/.a (2 K. xxi. 18),where his son Amon was also buried in his sepulchre(ver. 26). Ahaz was buried in the city even in Je-rusalem, but they brought him not into the sepul-chres of the kings of Israel (2 Chr. xxviii. 27).Up to the present time we have not been able toidentify one single sepulchral excavation aboutJerusalem which can be said with certainty tohave been used for burial before the time ofthe Romans. The only important hyjioycum whichis wholly Jewish in its arrangements, and mayconsequently belong to an earlier or to any epoch,is that known as the Tombs of the Prophets inthe western flank of the Mount of Olives. It hasevery appearance of having originally been a nat-ural cavern improved by art, and with an ex-ternal gallery some 140 feet in extent, into whichtwenty-seven deep or Jewish loculi open.
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