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 temple the first day of the next month, which was twenty one days after the surprisal, 470 years six months, and ten days after the foundation; 903 years six months, and ten days after the departure of the people out of Egypt; 1760 years, and six months after the flood; 3416 years, six months and ten days after the creation. Thus, and then was the city of Jerusalem taken, and for seventy years remained the Jews in this captivity.

It was built again by Nehemiah, Chron. i. ii. iii. iv. The temple and city was spoiled again by Burgoses Lieutenant to Artaxerexes then by Ptolomeuts the first then by Antiochus Ephiphanes, and again by Appolonious's deputy; after which, it was taken by Ponipy, and robbed by Crassus in his Parthian expedition. Yet all the losses the temple and city sustained were repaired by Herod the great, who enlarged the city, new built the temple, and left it both stately and glorious; it was compassed with three strong walls, the third wall had ninty towers, the second wall had fourteen, and the old wall had sixty: Agrippa built a fourth wall ten cubits high, but did not finish it, lest Claudious Cæser should think he designed to rebel: yet the Jews afterwards built it twenty cubits high, and raised a battlement two cubits, and built three towers thereon: All their towers were built of white marble, each stone being twenty cubits long, ten broad, and five thick; so curiously joined, that they seem'd but one stone, and the compass of the city, from the north to the west, was forty three furlongs.

Within the city was the king's palace surpassing all in the world for largeness and workmanship, invironed with a wall, which was thirty cubits high adorned with towers and beautified with houses to an hundred of the nobility; and in every room were many vessels of gold and silver, and porches adorned with