A dictionary of the . rted by a Roman army: theouter walls and lower city were taken inless than 60 days, and after prolongingthe siege for five months the citadel andtemple were captured by storm. Later,Herod was made king by the Romans. Hespeedily began to improve and beautifythe city, one of the chief of his worksbeing the enlarging of the temple, whichoccupied 46 years. Under his rule thecity was restored to something like itsancient magnificence. 4. Jerusalem in N. T. Times.—Jeru-salem, in the time of our Lord, stood inall the strength and grandeur to which ithad been brought by H
A dictionary of the . rted by a Roman army: theouter walls and lower city were taken inless than 60 days, and after prolongingthe siege for five months the citadel andtemple were captured by storm. Later,Herod was made king by the Romans. Hespeedily began to improve and beautifythe city, one of the chief of his worksbeing the enlarging of the temple, whichoccupied 46 years. Under his rule thecity was restored to something like itsancient magnificence. 4. Jerusalem in N. T. Times.—Jeru-salem, in the time of our Lord, stood inall the strength and grandeur to which ithad been brought by Herod. This kingdied a few months after the birth ofJesus, but the royal palace, the renewedtemple, the fortress of Antonia, builtfrom the older Baris tower, the grandtheatre where games were instituted inhonor of Caesar, the three great towersof Hippicus, Phasselus, and Mariamne,the bridge of Herod, between the uppercity and what had been a portion ofSolomons palace,—these magnificentstructures of Herod remained. The ruin. Robinsons Arch. now known as Robinsons Arch is apart of the bridge of Herod. Exceptthe aqueduct built under Pilate for the440 better supply of the city with water,no important improvements were madefrom the time of Herod the Great untilthe reign of his grandson, Herod A grip-pa, A. D. 41. The second wall enclosedthe northern part of the central valleyof the city; beyond this lay Bezetha,or new town, which Agrippa enclosedby a third wall, that doubled the sizeof the city. After his death Judgea againbecame simply a Roman province, ruledby reckless and oppressive procurators,and Jerusalem was the scene of dis-content, insurrections, riots, and pettyrebellions, until Vespasian and Titus be-gan a war to put down the was besieged. The terriblesufferings and agony of the Jews shutup in the invested city, the loss of up-ward of 1,000,000 lives in the siege, thecomplete destruction of the city, A. , form one of the darkest pages in theh
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