264 Deut. xxxii. 39. 265 The seventh day on which they used the willows. 266 A log is about half a pint. 267 He is said to have been a Sadducee who rejected tradition. Alexander Jannæus, to show his contempt for the Pharisees, poured the water on the ground. The people became excited, and pelted him with their ethrogs or citrons till his body-guard interfered, and, as fighting took place, some six thousand Jews were killed in the Temple. Josephus, “Antiq.,” book xiii. chap. xiii. 5. 268 Isa. xii. 3; John vii. 37, 38. 269 Galleries were erected for the women, and the men stood below them. 270 Ps. cxx. to cxxxiv. inclusive. 271 The signal for drawing water. 272 The orthodox worshippers in the Temple looked toward the west, or Holy of Holies. The Baal or Sun worshippers turned toward the east, and used the eastward position. Under the Christian dispensation believers are directed to look to Jesus, who promises to be in their midst (Matt. xviii. 20). 273 Ezek. viii. 16. 274 This is one of the very few specimens of Hebrew poetry, apart from Scripture (dating prior to the destruction of the temple), which have come down to us. 275 The priesthood was divided into twenty-four courses (1 Chron. xxiv. 7-19). During the feast all the courses ministered, and, as each day the number of bullocks was decreased by one, the lambs were redistributed so as to supply an offering for every course. 276 In the feast of weeks there were two leavened wave loaves (Lev. xxiii. 17). 277 Those priests who were slow in attendance, as they were obliged to share their perquisites with the whole priesthood.