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ERUSALEM was a principal city in Joshua's time, when Adonizedek was king, was slain by him; yet the Jebusites held it  four hundred years after, till David won it;  the inhabitants boasted that their blind  their lame would defend it, 2 Sam. v. 6. strengthened it with a castle, and beautified with palaces; after this Solomon enlarged it;  palace gates and walls could not be matched  all the world. It had within the walls one and fifty thousand inhabitants, besides  and children.

The trenches about it were sixty feet deep, out of the rock, and two hundred and fifty. Not long after Shishak king of Egypt it, and became master of Solomon's riches,  of all king David's spoil, which he had  from many nations, 2 Kings xiv. it was again, and part of the wall broken down Joash king of Israel, in Amaziah's reign,  Kings xvi. Not long after, Anaz the fifteenth of Judah, impoverished the temple, to  Tiglathpilnezer with the treasures thereof,  Manasseh lost what remained.