Jerusalem Explored - Part 50
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Part 50

[Sidenote: Gardens.]

"I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits." ii. 5. (p. 246.)

[Sidenote: Pools.]

"I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." ii. 6. (p. 246.)

ISAIAH.

[Sidenote: Upper pool. Fuller's field.]

"Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field." vii. 3. (pp. 241, 251.)

[Sidenote: Waters of Shiloah.]

"Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son." viii. 6. (p. 185.)

[Sidenote: Lower pool.]

"Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool." xxii. 9.

(p. 209.)

[Sidenote: Of the old pool.]

"Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago." xxii. 11. (p. 31.)

[Sidenote: Kings of a.s.syria. Conduit of upper pool. Fuller's field.]

"And the king of a.s.syria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field." x.x.xvi. 2. (p. 39.)

[Sidenote: People on the wall.]

"Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall." x.x.xvi. 11. (p. 252.)

"Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the a.s.syrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." x.x.xvii. 36.

(p. 241.)

JEREMIAH.

[Sidenote: Tophet. Hinnom.]

"Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place." vii.

32. (pp. 21, 205.)

[Sidenote: Hinnom. East gate.]

"And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee." xix. 2. (p. 286.)

[Sidenote: Tophet.]

"And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury." xix. 11. (pp. 21, 205, 206.)

[Sidenote: Gate of Benjamin.]

"Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord."

xx. 2. (p. 26.)

[Sidenote: Jehoiakim's burial.]

"He shall be buried with the burial of an a.s.s, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem." xxii. 19. (p. 310.)

[Sidenote: Graves of the common people.]

"And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people." xxvi. 23. (pp. 39, 168.)

[Sidenote: Gate of the corner. Tower of Hananeel.]

"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner." x.x.xi.

38. (p. 26.)

[Sidenote: Gareb. Goath.]

"And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compa.s.s about to Goath." x.x.xi. 39. (p. 18.)

[Sidenote: Valley of the dead bodies, &c.]

[Sidenote: Horse gate.]

"And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever." x.x.xi. 40. (p. 26.)

[Sidenote: Jeremiah's dungeon.]

"When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days." x.x.xvii. 16. (p. 229.)

[Sidenote: Bakers' street.]

"Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison." x.x.xvii. 21.

(p. 229.)

[Sidenote: Gate between the two walls. King's garden.]

"Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain." lii. 7. (pp.

26, 188.)

[Sidenote: People carried away captive.]

"This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty." lii. 28. (p.