[104]. The details of this restoration are given in the ‘Dictionary of the Bible,’ sub voce ‘Temple,’ and repeated in my work entitled ‘The Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem.’ Murray, 1865.
[105]. ‘Speaker’s Commentary on the Bible,’ vol. ii. p. 520; note on verse 15, chap. vii. 1 Kings.
[106]. For a restoration of this screen see ‘Tree and Serpent Worship,’ Appendix i., p. 270.
[107]. Since the article on the Temple in Smith’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible’ was written, from which most of the woodcuts in this chapter are taken, I have had occasion to go over the subject more than once, and from recent explorations and recently discovered analogies have, I believe, been able to settle, within very narrow limits of doubt, all the outstanding questions with reference to this celebrated building. I have in consequence written and published a monograph of the Temple, but have deemed it more expedient to leave the illustrations here as they are.
[108]. 2 Chronicles xx. 5.
[109]. Hecateus of Abdera, in ‘Müller’s Fragments,’ ii. 394.
[110]. Josephus, Ant. xi. 4, § 2.
[111]. Josephus, B. J. v. 5, § 4.
[112]. Dawkins and Wood, ‘The Ruins of Palmyra,’ Lond. 1753.
[113]. Texier, ‘Arménie et la Perse,’ vol. i. pl. 62 and 68.