[378] To form some notion of these buildings, see the excellent illustrations in Stade, i. 318-25. [379] The hill of Zion, the city of David, had become overcrowded, and the hill which lay to the north, which was called Millo, or "the border," had to be included in it. A narrow valley lay between them. "Mount Moriah, and its offshoot Ophel, remained outside the city, and the latter was inhabited by the remnant of the Jebusites" (Grätz, _Hist. of the Jews_, E. T., i. 121); Millo, LXX., ἡ ἄκρα. See 1 Macc. iv. 41, xiii. 49-52; Josephus, _Antt._, XIII. vi. 7. [380] 1 Kings ix. 19. [381] The "linen yarn" of 1 Kings x. 28 seems to be an error. The Hebrew is מִקְוֵה; LXX., ἐκ Θεκουέ; Vulg., _de Coâ_; R.V., "in droves." [382] 2 Chron. ix. 21. [383] See Max Müller, _Lectures on Language_, i. 191. The names _Shen Habbim_, "ivory" (Sanskr. _ibhas_, "elephant"), _Kophim_, "apes" (Sanskr. _kapi_), _Tukkyim_, "peacocks" (Tamil, _togei_), "algum trees" (Sanskr. _Valgaka_, LXX. πελεκητά, Alex. ἀπελέκητα, Vulg. _thyina_), all point to India. Aloes (_ahalim_, Psalm xlv. 8) are a fragrant tree of Malacca; cassia (Ind. _koost_), cinnamon (_cacyn-nama_) come from Ceylon. See Stanley, ii. 185. European history here first comes into contact with Sanskrit. [384] See Eccles. ii. 4-6. See on the extensive water-works, Ewald, iii. 252-57. [385] 2 Chron. ix. 21. [386] נֶשֶׁק; LXX., στακτή, "oil of myrrh." [387] 1 Kings x. 25. [388] See Cant. i. 9, iii. 6-11, iv. 8; 2 Chron. xi. 6; Josephus, _Antt._, VIII. vii. 3; Psalm xlv. [389] The great statue of Athene by Phidias was of this "Chryselephantine" work. Comp. "ivory palaces" (Psalm xlv. 8; 1 Kings xxii. 39; Amos iii. 15) and "ivory couches" (Amos vi. 4). [390] Josephus, _Antt._, VIII. v. 2; Hosea iv. 16; Jer. xxxi. 18, etc. [391] Ezek. xxvii., xxviii.; Zech. ix. 3. [392] The Abyssinian, confusing Sheba (Arabia Felix) with Seba (as do Origen and Augustine), call her Makeda, Queen of Abyssinia, and say that she had a son by Solomon named Melinek (Ludolphus, _Æthiop._, ii. 3), from whom all their emperors down to Theodore were descended. The legend of the Queen of Sheba is related in the Qur'an, _Sura_ xxvii. 20-40 (chapter of the Ant). The Arabs call her Balkis, whose legends are narrated by D'Herbelot (_Bibl. Or._, s.v. Balki). Josephus identifies her with Nicaule (the Nitocris of Herod., ii. 100), Josephus, _Antt._, VIII. vi. 2. In the New Testament she is called "the Queen of the South" (Matt. xii. 42). [393] He had made two hundred large shields (_tzinnîm_, θυρεοί, _scuta_) and three hundred targets (_maginnîm_, ἀσπίδες, _clypei_) of gold at fabulous cost (1 Kings x. 16). They were all plundered by Shishak. [394] 1 Kings x. 5, but "ascent" should perhaps be "burnt offering," as in margin of R.V. and in all the versions. Comp. 2 Chron. ix. 4 (LXX.). A special seat or platform of brass seems to have been assigned to Solomon in the Temple court (2 Kings xi. 14, xvi. 18, xxiii. 3; 2 Chron. vi. 13).