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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18386	Palestina Written by Mr. R.C.P. and Bachelor of Diuinitie	Chambers, Robert, 1571-1624?	1600 (1600)	STC 4954; ESTC S119228	109,088	208

two vpper roomes were kept the chiefest riches belonging to the temple It was built with square white stone to the top which was flat couered with cedars as the maner of building was in Palestina and had battlements round about it fiue cubits high About this except the east side were other buildings as great as the narrownes of the mountaine would suffer 3. st●●●es high whereof the lowest was 5. cubits broade the middle 6. the highest 7. they were all of them seuerally fiue cubits long and 20 cubits high they had windows only northward southward but they were verie great because through thē came the light to the middle building which was diuided in two parts with a wall which left a roome of 20 cubits square toward the west The outmost part had the walles couered within with Cedar which was carued with image work of Cherubins palmtrees and other deuises vpō which were plates of gold carued in the like maner layd so close as if all had bin but one peece of work euery image in the wood had the like in gold so fitted vnto it that when al were couered with the gold they shewed as perfitly as before the golde was fastened vnto them It had a roofe 30. cubits high of Cedar carued after the same maner couered with golde the wall next vnto the porch was 10. cubits thicke wherin were two double folded doores of firre-tree both the folde● of equall breadth fiue cubites which were couered as the walles were and so artificially made as whether they stood wide open or close shut they could not be perceiued to be dor●s for being shut they seemed part of the fore-front of the wall and being opened they couered the thicknes of the wall in such sort as by no meanes it could be seene where they hung or where they were ioyned Some say that in euery one of the 4. corners of the entry was a single doore fiue cubits broad that the inside toward the tēple when these doores were shut was as one wall as well as the out-side toward the porch The windowes were only in the South north-wals verie broad within narrow in the out-side right against the great windowes in the out-buildings Within the south part of the wal which was ten cubits thicke was a paire of round turning stayres which se●●ed to all the out-buildings for they were so made as one opened into another euen vnto the farthest on the same floure In the north part of the same wall was another paire stayres to goe vp into the middle roomes which were right ouer the temple yet some are of opinion that the former stairs did serue also for those rooms In the middle of this temple neere vnto the inward roome was an altar of Setim which is acconnted the lightest cleerest and most beautifull of all trees and hath this propertie that it neuer rotteth it was one cubit square and two cubites high it was couered within without with gold and made like vnto a censor but that at the foure corners for the greater ornament were foure pillars of the same wood couered likewise with golde Some do say that this altar stood within the inmost Temple and that in this place was an altar made of Cedar by Salomon and couered with gold as the other others say that Salomon onely couered that of Setim with Cedar and gold so that both were but one altar and stood in the middle of this outmost temple It was sometime called the golden altar somtime the altar of incense In the south side toward the west stood a candlestick of gold wherin on each side were 3. branches or armes carued as also the bodie thereof with lillies cups and balles in this candle-sticke were seuen lights maintained day and night the snuffers the vessell that held the oyle that which receiued the snuffings whatsoeuer els belonged vnto the candlestick were of gold In the north side right against the cādlestick was a table of Setim 2. cubits long one cubit broad and a cubit a half high it was couered top sides with golde round about vpon the top of the edges of the table were two crowns of gold the vndermost was wrought the vppermost was plaine Vpon this table euery Sabaoth day were set 12. new loaues of vnleuened bread euery loafe of 8. pound weight 6. in a heap one vpon another were called bread ●f proposition because they were alwaies sette by the Iewes in Gods sight in the temple to acknowledge that they liued by him vpō the tops of those heaps stood 2. cups of gold full of most pure incense at the end of the weeke the bread was taken away for the priests vse fresh set in their places but al the incense was burned Heere also were tenne other tables little worse then that fiue stood in the North side and fiue in the South side whereon stood a hundred cuppes of gold for the Priests to drinke in also here were tenne other candlesticks of gold which stood in the like order before the doore of this temple hung a vayle of image worke in foure most liuely and rich colours white scarlet redde and skie-colour The inmost building diuided with a wall full west from the former temple was twentie cubits square and differed nothing from it but onelie that the doores were of oliue and the pauement of Cedar but couered with golde as the other were it was accounted the holyest place in all the temple and no man might enter into it but the high Priest nor hee but once in the yeere In the middle of this temple stood the Arke which God taught Moyses to make in the wildernes after hee had led the Israelites out of Egypt through the redde sea dry-foote at what time Pharao King of Egypt pursuing them was drowned and all his armie It was made of Setim two cubites and a halfe long one cubite and a halfe broade and so high it was plated within and without with most pure gold at euery corner was a ring of gold so bigge as on each side of the Arke a strong barre of Setim couered with gold might go through them for the conuenient carriage thereof when it was remooued The couer of the Arke was plaine and of fine gold so long and broade as the Arke was vpon which stoode two Cherubins of gold with their winges spread from one end of the couer vnto the other and they stood as if they were one loking toward the other This couer to the Arck they called a propitiatorie because from thence did God promise mercy vnto his people when he was sued vnto by the high priestes Within this Arke were the two Tables of the law which God himselfe carued in a stone and gaue to Moses Here was also a golden pot with Manna which was the onely food by which the Israelites liued after they came forth of Egypt for the space of 40 years it was of that qualitie

Mathathias tooke vpon him the name of a king neuer before vsed since their captiuitie in Babilon and dying without issue a yeere after hee beganne his raigne leaft his wife according to their lawes as well as his kingdome vnto his brother Alexander who had by her two sonnes the elder was named Hircanus who after his fathers decease during his mothers widowhood was high priest and after her death was also king of the Iewes the yonger who was called Aristobulus aspiring to the kingdome by force of armes made his elder brother to yeeld it vnto him and to content himselfe with the high priesthood which also not long after hee demaunded in like sort as he had demaunded the kingdome Wherefore Hirca●● beeing too weake to resist his forces fledde for ayde vnto Pompey a noble Romane well experienced in wars and had alreadie beene a 〈◊〉 of many Kings who ●ay with a great armie at that time in 〈◊〉 a principall citie of Siria bordering vpon the north side of Palestina This did Hirca●●s partly because not long before had beene a great league of friendship concluded and kept betwixt the Iewes and the Romanes and partly by the perswasion of one in some credite with him whose name was An●ipater hee was no Iew but of Idumea or as some say of Ascalon one of the fiue Dutchies of the Philistins neere vnto the middle earth sea and some to one of those Idolatrous priests which belonged to Apollo or some other which kept his temple and was stolne away by the theeues of Idumea whence because his friends were either not able or not willing to redeeme him he remained vntill in the ende hee was one of their cheefe leaders and in a 〈◊〉 betwixt them and the Iewes taken prisoner but beeing found by Alexander●ing ●ing of the Iewes to be both valiant and wi●e he was made gouernor of Id●mea in which office he behaued himselfe so well as the Arabians ●ought his friendship and to confirme it gaue him to wife a noble woman of their country named Cypr●s and for his sake were euer after readie to ayde the Iewes vntill some priuate quarrelles chanced to be betweene them and when hee returned againe to Palestina he alwaies fauoured Hircanus eldest sonne to Alexander and encouraged him to maintaine his right against Aristobulus his yonger brother Nicholas of Damascus who when neede was pleaded before Caesar for Herod and Arthel●●● laboured to shew that this Antipater was descended of the kings of Palestin● fetched his pedigree from the chiefest of those Iewes which returned after their capti●●itie from Babilon but if Antipater or his children were the first which would seeke to gentilzie a base bloud Nicholas will not be the last which will find it Pompey hauing giuen Aristobulus the ouerthrow carryed him away captiue to Rome although hee restored Hircanus to his kingdome yet he made the Iewes tributarie to the Romanes left Antipater as a president ouer the countrey who because hee was in yeeres committed Galile which contained al the north end of Palestina vnto his sonne Herod and Iudea which contained all the South part vnto his sonne Phaselus himselfe ruling onely in Samaria which was the heart of the countrey which when Antigonus Aristo●●l●s his sonne perceiued and conceiued small hope of any helpe from the Iewes to recouer the dignitie which his father lost he requested ayde of the Parthians who comming with a great power set vp Antigonus in Hircanus his rome and led away Hircanus prisoner also Phaselus but Antigonus to the end that Hircanus should neuer after be capable of the high preisthood disfigured him by cutting or biting off his eares and Phaselus hearing that his brother had escaped hoping that he would reuenge his death beate out his owne brains against a stone Antipater not long before was poysoned by Malchus a Iew and Herod escaping although verie hardly trauailed with great paine to Rome notwithstanding the time of the yeere was vnseasonable for so long a iourney where declaring vnto Augustus Caesar and vnto the Senate what had chanced in Palestina he was created in the capitoll king of the Iewes and returning with a great power of men after much bloudshed against Antigonus whom Antony Emperour of the East by an agreement made betwixt him and Augustus Emperour of the west against which Antony Tully thundred out in vain to his cost so many phillipics after he had whipped and crucified him caused to be heheaded and established Herod in the kingdom of the Iewes But although many were so besorted with Herod as to take him to be the Prince of which they had so many prophesies yet many others which see the seep●er ●ayle in Iudas his familie and knew that hee who was promised vnto them should not onelye come when the 〈◊〉 fayled but be also of that family and of Dauid● stocke expected dayly when he would shew himselfe and set them at libertie who liued vnder Herod in too much sauery but Marie and Ioseph kept al things most secret awaking themselues often with the consideration of this heauēly misterie waiting the wished time of her happie deliuery And when the virgin had made prouision not such as princes commonly affect but such as their pouerty could conucniēthy afford she gaue her self wholy to the meditation of that which had 〈◊〉 oftē broken her sleep without any trouble bereaued her of her sense● without any paine and poore Ioseph was as forward in will although he were not s● highly fauoured as his wife when suddenly did a speach arise which wrought in him an vnspeakable 〈◊〉 and would also haue amased her had she not beene well armed against all weather Augustus Caesar sole Emperour both in the East and West hauing ouercome Anthonie at Ac●●um in Greece as at other times before so now sendeth order to the Presidents of euerie p●ouince to gether the tribute due vnto him the maner wherof was in Palestina as it seemeth at that time to take the names of the people not where they dwelled but where was the portion of land alotted to the tribe of which they were and as neare as they could in the citie which principally belonged to that family which exquisite course of e●acting the tribute hath giuen a probable cause of suspition that this was the first description which was made of Palestina by cause afterward we read that one of the tribe of Iudah and of the familie of Da●id borne in 〈◊〉 belonging vnto the same tribe and familie and brought vp in a citie of Zabulon paied tribute in 〈◊〉 a Citie of Nepthalim But whether this were the first description of Palestina or no it is not materiall Ioseph being of the tribe of Iudah and of the family of Dauid was forced to depart from Nazareth toward his country there to giue vp his name and to pay the tribute demaunded which was ordinarily euerie fiue yeares for euery man two grotes sterling or foure groates as