547 In each act of sprinkling, the priest, standing before a corner, sprinkled the blood on two sides of the altar. And thus, in two acts of sprinkling, he put the blood on its four sides. 548 Called the Shema. It consisted of the following three passages of Scripture, as given in the next footnotes. 549 Deut. vi. 4-9. 550 Deut. xi. 13-21. 551 Num. xv. 37-41. 552 The lot for the incense was always arranged for a new man who had never burned it before. It might come to a priest once in his lifetime, and never again afterward. Luke i. 9. 553 The chambers for vestments had separate rooms for each of the twenty-four courses, and separate wardrobes for each of the four kinds of vestments. 554 About 37-1/2 gallons. 555 See note 5, chap. iii. 8. 556 The Delegates were appointed to represent the whole congregation of Israel in the temple services. 557 Jehovah. 558 That is by substituting for the Name (Jehovah) the word “Adonai,” except where “Adonai” and “Jehovah” come together. In such cases “Elohim” is substituted for “Jehovah.” 559 Lev. ix. 22. 560 Who had charge of the channels from the altar. 561 Ps. xxiv. 1. 562 Ps. xlviii. 1. 563 Ps. lxxxii. 1. 564 Ps. xciv. 565 Ps. lxxxi. 566 Ps. xciii. 567 A famous maker of incense. 568 Sparkling. 569 Burning. The watch at certain gates seems to have been hereditary in certain families. Just as at the present time the custody of Rachel’s tomb is the privilege of a certain family in Jerusalem. Each guard consisted of ten men, so that there were 210 Levites in the twenty-one stations. The three more important places contained guards of both Levites and Priests, thirty of each. There were therefore 240 Levites on guard each night. 570 He rolled up his overcoat and laid it down for a cushion. 571 Rev. xvi. 15. 572 Obscurity. 573 Platform or rampart. 574 1 Mac. ii. 25. 575 So called either because Nicanor, a Pharisee, had the gate made in Alexandria, and though it was thrown overboard from a ship in a storm, it yet came safe to land; or because Nicanor, a Greek prince, was slain there in the time of the Asmoneans. 576 Ezek. xlvi. 2. 577 Ezek. xliii. 16. 578 As this corner would have been in the tribe of Judah, it was not added, that the whole altar might remain in the tribe of Benjamin. Gen. xlix. 27. 579 This sloping ascent to the altar was strewn with salt. This salt was brought from the mountain of Sodom at the south of the Dead Sea. The salt was intended to keep the priests from slipping and falling, which might easily happen, as they were obliged to minister barefooted. The coldness of the pavement in winter, and eating so much flesh of the sacrifices, brought various diseases on the priests. 580 House of the vineyard. 581 Deut. xxvii. 5.