the names of other trades; thus the valley, in fofes time, was called Tyropean P. Rehob properly is an open place (K): in the Re- Places. b, according to Ezekiel 9, were built the high places. e book of Esther, an officer of the king of Perfia out to Mordecai, in the Rebob of the town, overft the gate of the palace, which feems to have been e use of by the courtiers to walk in. In the Rehob erufalem, Hezekiah affembled his generals, and e a fpeech to them. The people were gathered toer by Ezra in a Rehob of the temple, and the priests Levites by Hezekiah u in the eastern Rehob; we must ose these two to have been parts of the vacant space furrounded the courts of the temple. Laftly, there a Rehob near the water-gate ", which must have been. large, fince it contained all the people of both that flocked thither from all parts, in order to Ezra read the law, upon a fcaffold, or stage, erected this occafion at one end of the place, in fuch a her, that Ezra had the whole affembly facing him. we have not yet taken notice of Millo, it is fe we do not find it in Scripture diftinguifhed by of the above-mentioned names, or indeed by any other than Millo. When David took from the Jebufites cop of mount Zion, he then built round about from e and inwards, fays the text of Samuel, where it y to understand, a castle was built on this mount, unded with ftrong walls, and probably of a circular This building had on the eaft what is called Millo, on the other fides was bounded by the hill itself; inch that the city of David was within mount Zion he north, weft and fouth, but was bordered eastward Aillo (L). Although it is faid in the text y, Solomon Bell. Jud. ubi fup. 9 Ezek. xvi. 24. 4. built • Efther * 2 Chron. Ezra x. 9. figni ) The root 3 co inlarge; fo that Res literally a large place, is made use of to fignify place, or fquare, of a Judges xix. 15. (L) Without doubt Mill doth fignify fomething either full, or to be filled; at least this may be deduced from the two Hebrew words that come nearest to it, melo, fulness, and Q3 miluath, Buildings. built it; yet the context fhews, that he only made an of it, or repaired it; and as much did Hezekiah time. Who the firft was that built it, we know; but it seems to have been a work of the whofe government was almost a democracy, like Athens. LET us next vifit the public buildings in Za first that offers itself is the palace of king David, top of the mount in the midst of a fortress." was a flight of fteps to go up to it b ; to the p thefe fteps, or ftairs, ftood the tomb of David, Jofephus tells many wonderful ftories at the end feventh book of his antiquities. At the bottom: fteps was the house of the Mighty c. This, in nion, ferved as a guard-houfe to the palace, was the station of fome chief commanders whose leave no one was permitted to go up to miluath, beazel, or collet, in which are inchafed precious ftones. So Mofes, receiving orders about the breaft-plate, is bid to fill the beazel, miluath, with a ftone (24), that the ftones fhall be fet in gold in their inclofings (25), and that they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclofings, bemilluotham (26). So then Millo was fomething filled up; and this we are very ready to allow; for, to make it fit for the use we have been speaking of, it was required, that in fome places this fpot of ground fhould be made level, and in others filled up, in order to its being uniform, and of a piece. For this reafon, and from what is faid in Scripture, there (24) Exod. xxviii. 37. er. 13. would be no abfurd pofing it to have be cious open place, Campus Martius at the people met fat creation, on feftival rejoicing days, or vate or public affairs be placed at the foc city of David, going valley between Zios in the centre of t circumference of j Others imagine it Street, beginning of the city of Dar reaching as far as Moriah; or elfe a wa the valley between hills; and laftly, the itself. But this feems bable than what we hinted. at t of Jerufalen B. I. A Defcription of Jerufalem. ws, that he or fuch as we fuppofe the thirty-one worthies, among whom as much did was Uriah the Hittite. s that built NEXT was the arsenal, or armoury, at the turning been a work of the wall f, in Hebrew called Mikzoah (M); but the ft a demurfenal itfelf, by a compendious expreffion, or way of peaking, was called Hannefhek, for Neshek is a ublic building weapon, or arms. The word haith, a house, muft there lace of king Dore be understood. idit of a fort Nor far from the arfenal, and more towards the middle P to it ; to f the city, was, if not the palace of an high-priest, at e tomb of Decaft a pontifical place, then in the poffeffion of Eliafhib %. ftories at thehemiah mentions it only occafionally, when he speaks s. At the bot the repairs of the walls of the city; but even from the hty. This, :tle that is faid of it, we may gather, that it was a fpahief commande houfe of Azariah, a man of diftinction of the tribe of e to the palaceous building. Lower, at a very little diftance, we find But it is time to come to the palace or itted to go up enjamin h. 16. 22 Sam ould be no abl laces. AND here the books of Kings indeed mention three fing it to haly a fpacious apartment (N) added to the first house, hofe fituation it is not very difficult to fix. ous open place, ampus Martius e people met eation, on fefti 2 Sam. xxiii. 8, & feq. oicing days, n..iii. 19. te or public placed at the 8. e Ibid. 39. g Ibid. 20. Ibid. 2. h Ibid. 2.3. 1 Ibid. 8. Jey between ening of an angle, which y of David, (M) PD is properly the xoab; Behold, fays he (28) the centre cumference afequently forms a space; corner of the court there was a court. (N) Beth is often taken in that fenfe, as when Rebekah runs to her mother's beth (29), apart pinnah is the point of ers imagine angle, or, as it is called by =t, beginning ifts, a faliant angle; fo he city of wall had a turning out here, ment, or lodging; and fo is the far hing as elfe iah; or this juftifies the translation; any one may fee, that it houfe of the women (30) to valley betwmed a corner, or open place, Efther; the faid houfe pro; and lay he interior angle. For this bably not being separate from than whalekiel's temple is called Mik 231 one fide, this palace was almost parallel to the water gatem, and, on the other, there was a communication between it and the temple, by means of the terrace built by Solomon over the valley ". I am apt to think that the second was a fummer-retirement, fince we have it upon record, that Solomon built it in the foreft. But yet I would not contradict those who are of opinion, that it was only another wing or apartment of the palace, which very probably took its name from the cedars of Lebanon, that may be fuppofed to have been the chief material employed in it P (O). ૧ NOT far from this palace, I think, was the Mattara, tranflated prifon ; but, if it was one, it was only like the Tower of London, or like our courts of law, or even the main corps-de-garde at the avenues of the palace. For, in the court of this Mattara, Jeremiah was confined; but at the fame time was allowed a good deal of liberty, fince it was here he made the purchase of an estate in presence of several witneffes, who figned the deed of agreement, and of all the Jews that lived there. We read moreover, that afterwards the prophet was taken going out of Jerufalem, and by Zedekiah's order transferred to the Mattara again, where he prophefied in the hearing of all the people; and the prophet remained in the above-mentioned court till the taking of Jerufalem u (P). THERE Nehem, iii. 26. " 1 Kings vii. paff. Ibid. ix. 19. 2 Chron. viii. 6. P See before, vol. ii. p. 397, & 470. 9 Nehem. iii. 25. Coll. Jerem. xxxii. 2. * Jerem. xxxii. 12, & feq. $ Ibid. xxxvii. 12. 1 Ibid. xxxviii. 1. u Ibid. 28. (O) The following confideration adds a great deal of weight to this fide of the queftion; viz. That in this houfe (31) were placed the targets and fhields of beaten gold; for the diftance from Lebanon to Jerufalem would have made it very troublesome to bring them up whenever they were wanted, befides the risk of being (31) 1 Kings X. 17. taken, to which fuch costly armourwouldhavebeen exposed by the way; and indeed they were carried away by Shishak when he came up against the city (32). (P) All this fufficiently fhews the Mattara to have been different from a prifon commonly fo called. But it is not so easy to determine the fituation of this (32) Ibid. xiv. 25, 26. building, THERE are two diftinct indications of the reparations made by Palal in the wall mentioned in the last note, one near the turning of the wall going up to the watergate, the other near the adjoining tower; and the fituation of this tower is fpecified as well by its diftinguishing height, as by its relation to the palace, and the neighbourhood of the court in queftion. So that, to fix this to a point, we must look upon these buildings as being within the verge of the court, and under the immediate cognizance of king Solomon, and his fucceffors. Men were there intirely under their protection, neither could they be meddled with but by the kings exprefs command; although it was by their orders only, they were reftrained within the bounds of thefe buildings. WE are now come to buildings much lefs remarkable for their dignity, magnificence, or embellishments; but whofe fituation cannot well be omitted in the particular defcription we are about; I mean the ftation or poft of the Nethinims *. It is faid indeed they dwelt in Ophel, eastward, near the valley; but their moshab, or dwelling, fhould not, we prefume, be contounded with their house, beth, or, as in our verfion, their place. Then followed the hall or place of the merchants or retailers, barokelim, who, I believe, are the fame as the Colly » Nehem. iii. 26, 31. y Ibid. houfe, the high tower that was by the court of Mat"tara." But, though it be well fufceptible of this sense, when joined to that fequel of the king's houfe, this phrase may well admit of another fignification, when without it; and this fignification we then take to be that of a great extent (34); fo as the Mattara, its court included, being called by the name of this bigh tower, that fet it off exceedingly, was, it seems, a long series of buildings and walls, diftant about fifty paces on the weft fide of the water-gate. (34) Jerem. xxxii. pass. bifta, |