This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...and the rocky edges of the west side of the valley of Hinnom, still shew how the whole of the garden ground, encircling the town, had gradually been utilized for family graves, by the owner of each garden having had one hewn out in it; though, of course, the gardens have long since perished, and the tombs now stand in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...and the rocky edges of the west side of the valley of Hinnom, still shew how the whole of the garden ground, encircling the town, had gradually been utilized for family graves, by the owner of each garden having had one hewn out in it; though, of course, the gardens have long since perished, and the tombs now stand in open ground, abandoned to the basest uses. When we read of Manasseh being buried in his own house, or Samuel in his house at Ramah, or Joab in his in "the wilderness," 6 it means in the garden ground con 1 2 Kings xxi. 18, 26. John xix. 41. 'Matt. xxiii. 27. Isa. viii. 19; xxix. 4; lxv. 4; Matt. viii. 28; Mark v. 2; Luke vtii. 27. 0 1 Sam. xxv. 1; 1 KingB ii. &1; 2 C'hron. xxxiil. 20. nected with the house, as the ground outside Jerusalem, in the gardens of the ruined houses, is meant by Nehemiah, when he calls the city "the place of my fathers' sepulchres." 1 Most of the kings were honoured by their tombs being inside the walls of their capital, whether at Jerusalem, Thirza, or Samaria. David, for example, and most of his descendants, were laid in a great royal tomb, in the "city of David," still remaining in the time of the apostles, and which may yet be brought to light again, from under the rubbish of many centuries, somewhere in the hill south of the Temple grounds, on which the "city of David " stood." The interior of Hebrew tombs differed in different cases. Some had hollows cut in their rough floor, for bodies; a stone covering each receptacle when filled. Others had square holes, the length of a corpse, pierced horizontally in their sides; the body being pushed in, apparently feet foremost, and the small front then sealed up. A third style was to make a number of hollows, large enough t...
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