[242] 2 Chron. ii. 13, iv. 16, where "a cunning man of Huram my father's" should be "even Huram, my father," _i.e._, master-workman or deviser (comp. Gen. xlv. 8). In Chronicles he is called the son of a Danite mother. Here we have another of the manipulations used by later Jewish tradition to get rid of what they disliked; for in Eupolemos (Euseb., _Præp. Evang._, ix. 34) Hiram is said to belong to the family of David. "Quite a little romance," as Wellhausen says, "has been constructed out of the fact that the chronicler assigns his mother to the tribe of Dan; but it is not worth repeating, being a mass of hypotheses." To the dislike of Sidonian and semi-Sidonian influence, we perhaps owe the notion that David had already received a design from the hand of God Himself (1 Chron. xxviii. 11-19) (Ewald, iii. 227). Jerome mentions the Jewish fable that the artist Hiram was of the family of Aholiab, the artist of the wilderness. [243] "Araunah the king" (2 Sam. xxiv. 23). The Temple Mount was usually called the "Mount of the House." It is only called Mount Moriah in 2 Chron. iii. 1. It cannot be regarded as certain that "the land of Moriah" (Gen. xxii. 2) is identical with it. [244] "The present platform is 1521 feet long on the east, 940 on the south, 1617 on the west, 1020 on the north." Bartlett, _Walks about Jerusalem_, pp. 161-70; Williams, _The Holy City_, pp. 315-62. Kugle, _Gesch. der Baukunst_, p. 125. The excellent stone was supplied by quarries at Jerusalem itself. Comp. "Cavati sub terra montes." (Tac., _Hist._, v. 12). It may have been extended by Justinian when he built his church. See Ewald, iii. 232, "The Mount of the Temple was 500 yards square"; _Middoth_, c. 2. Comp. Ezek. xiii. 15-20, xlv. 2; Josephus, _Antt._, XV. xi. 3. [245] Exod. i., ii. [246] 1 Kings iv. 6, v. 13, 14, 17, 18, ix. 15, 21, xii. 18. [247] Ewald thinks that it was only "at the beginning" that Solomon, like Sesostris (Diod. Sic., _Hist._, i. 56), could boast that his work was done without exacting bitter labour from his own countrymen. But 1 Kings ix. 22 shows that the king's opinion on this subject differed widely from that of his people (1 Kings xi. 28, xii. 3); for we are told that he did not make _servants_ of the children of Israel, but used them as military officers (_Sarim_) and chariot-warriors (_Shalishim_, τριστάται) and knights. It required a little euphemism to gild the real state of affairs. The details of numbers in the Books of Chronicles differ from those in the Kings. [248] 1 Kings v. 13, ix. 22; 2 Chron. viii. 9. (Omitted in the LXX.) [249] In token of this defeat of Solomon he was represented in a statue outside the church leaning his hand on his cheek with a gesture of sorrow. [250] Professor Williams, _Prolus. Architectonicæ_. [251] Professor Hoskins (_Enc. Brit._); Canina, _Jewish Antiquities_; Thrupp, _Ancient Jerusalem_; Count de Vogüé, _Le Temple de Jérusalem_.