PART III. with Thapfacus, a confiderable city lying on the Euphrates, and frequently mentioned by Heathen writers. There is mention made, 2 Kings xv. 16. of a Tiphfah, that Menahem, then King of Ifrael, fmote: but this must be different from the Tiphfah before mentioned, and muft, according to the circumftances of the story, lie not far from Tirzah, and fo on the weft fide of the river Jordan, in the land of Ifrael.

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In the following chapters (from the fifth to the eighth Of Solo- inclufively) we have an account of the building of SoloTemple. mon's Temple, of which I have spoken largely in my Geography of the New Teftament, Part I. chap. iii. §. 7. It will not, I fuppofe, be unacceptable to the reader, to have here reprefented to him two draughts relating to Solamon's Temple, taken from Villalpandus.

The first draught, No. 1. reprefents the ichnography or ground-plot of the whole Temple, both courts and buildings.

The fecond draught, No. 2. reprefents the ichnography or ground-plot of the Temple, or houfe of the Lord more properly fo called; which confifted of these two principal parts, the fanctuary or holy, and the holy of holies, or most holy.

From these draughts compared together may be framed a fomewhat juft idea of the Temple of Solomon, as to the nobleness and magnificence of its ftructure. And that it was a moft noble and magnificent ftructure, and every way most agreeable to the rules of fymmetry and proportion, can in no wife be rationally doubted, or indeed without great impiety, fince we learn from 1 Chron. xxviii. that the Temple was built by Solomon according to the pattern which God himself had been pleased to give to David for that purpose. Then David gave to Solomon his fon the pattern of the porch, and of the houfes thereof, and of the treafuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy, feat; and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the houfe of the Lord, and of all the chambers

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