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Rh which ſpouted out water, with ciſterns and brazen ſtatues, from which water ran continually.

The temple was built upon a rocky mountain, and the place at the top, was not at firſt big enough for the temple and court, the hill being very ſleep, but the people every day brought earth thither, and they at laſt made it plain and large enough, with wonderful curioſity and labour, encloſed with three walls, which were many days labour, with the coſt of all the holy treaſure offered to God from all parts; the foundation of the temple was laid three hundred cubits deep; the porches were double ſupported by many pillars twenty cubits high, all of one piece of marble; ths tops of cedar ſo exactly wrought, as aitoniſhed beholders, the porches were thirty cubits broad, and the compaſs of the temple was ſix furlongs: The courts were curiouſly paved and wrought with all ſorts of ſtones, and the gates were covered with weighty plates of gold, only one with Corinthian braſs, which for beauty excelled the others, dazzling the eyes of the ſpectators.

Then the SANCTUM SANCTORUM, or Holy of Holies, ſituated in the midſt, had twelve ſtairs to go up to it, the fore-part of it was an hundred cubits high, and as many broad, and backwards it was forty cubits on each ſide. It had as it were two ſhoulders twenty cubits