Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JERUSALEM AS CHRIST SAW IT Changes in Topography—Rehoboam—Jehoram—Jehoash— Ahaz—Rezin and Pekah—Assyrians—Hezekiah—Manasseh— Jehoiachim—Zedekiah—Disastrous Siege—Cyrus the Persian— Return of the Jews—Temple and Walls Rebuilt—Alexander— Ptolemy Soter—Antiochus—Mattathias—Maccabees—Aristob- ulus and Hyrcanus—Antipater—Pompey—Antigonus—Herod the Great—Grandeur of Jerusalem—Comparison between Solomon end Herod—Grecian Influences—Herod’s Temple—Its Arrangement—Appearance and Condition of the City—Tyro- pean Bridge—Porches of Temple—Cloisters—Temple Courts —Gentiles Forbidden—Beautiful Gate—Nicanor Gate—Altar of Sacrifice—Brazen Laver—Description of Temple Proper— Business District—Kinds of Business—Life—Laborers—Wages — Population — Pharisee — Sadducee —Language—Schools— Seeds of Decay. JERUSALEM AS CHRIST SAW IT DURING the thousand years that intervened between the reigns of Solomon and Herod the Great, Jerusalem had been the victim of many a siege by foreign conquerors, and many a disastrous internal strife. These had had their effect upon the appearance of the city; if the royal sleepers in the tombs in the City of David could have looked upon its streets and palaces and temple, they would not have recognized them as parts of the city they once knew. The very hills had been altered and the deep beds of the valleys raised by the debris of repeated wars. The same old walls were still standing, but they had been broken and repaired so often that the original builders would hardly have known their work. New walls had also been built. It may be well to give a brief account of the causes of these changes before the changes themselves are noted. In the fifth year of Rehoboam, successor to his father, Solomon, on the throne of Israel, Shishak, king of Egypt advanced to Jerus...
