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AFTER the building of the temple, which, as we have before said,
was finished in seven years, the king laid the foundation of his palace,
which be did not finish under thirteen years, for he was not equally zealous
in the building of this palace as he had been about the temple; for as
to that, though it was a great work, and required wonderful and surprising
application, yet God, for whom it was made, so far co-operated therewith,
that it was finished in the forementioned number of years: but the palace,
which was a building much inferior in dignity to the temple, both on account
that its materials had not been so long beforehand gotten ready, nor had
been so zealously prepared, and on account that this was only a habitation
for kings, and not for God, it was longer in finishing. However, this building
was raised so magnificently, as suited the happy state of the Hebrews,
and of the king thereof. But it is necessary that I describe the entire
structure and disposition of the parts, that so those that light upon this
book may thereby make a conjecture, and, as it were, have a prospect of
its magnitude.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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