[345] 1 Kings xi. 27; ix. 15-24. [346] 1 Kings iv. 26; x. 26. [347] 1 Kings iv. 20, 25; v. 4. [348] 1 Kings ix. 19. [349] 1 Kings x. 29. [350] 1 Kings ix. 26-28; x. 22. [351] Judges xvii. 10. The Hebrew silver shekel is to be reckoned at more than 2_s._ 6_d._; the gold shekel from 36 to 45_s._ Cf. Vol. i. 304. [352] 2 Sam. xxiv. 24. [353] Song of Solomon viii. 11; cf. Mover's "Phoenizier," 3, 48 ff, 81 ff. [354] 1 Kings x. 14. [355] 1 Kings ix. 19. [356] 1 Kings x. 21; 2 Chron. ix. 20. [357] Song of Solomon iii. 7-10. [358] 1 Kings x. 27. [359] 1 Kings x. 27. [360] 1 Kings iv. 29-34. [361] 1 Kings iv. 22, 23, 26-28. [362] 1 Kings ix. 20, 21. In order to prove that Solomon used these and no others for his workmen, the Chronicles (2, ii. 16, 17) reckon this remnant at 153,000 men, _i.e._ exactly at the number of task workmen with their overseers given in the Book of Kings. According to this the incredible number of half a million of Canaanites must have settled among the Israelites. The general assertion of the Books of Kings (1, ix. 22) is supported by the detailed evidence in the same books, 1, v. 13; xi. 28; xii. 4 ff. [363] 1 Kings iv. 11-15; v. 13-18. [364] 1 Kings ix. 10-14. The contradictory statement in Chronicles (2, viii. 2) cannot be taken into consideration. [365] 1 Kings xi. 4-9, 33. Though this account belongs to times no earlier than the author of Deuteronomy, yet since the destruction of these places of worship "set up by Solomon" is expressly mentioned under Josiah (2 Kings xxiii. 13), it cannot be doubted. [366] 1 Chron. xxiv.-xxvii. Here, as is usual in the Chronicles, the division of the priests is given systematically, and the idea of such a division is ascribed to the last years of David. "The Levites were numbered according to David's last commands," 1 Chron. xxiv.; cf. cap. xxvii. Throughout the Chronicles make a point of exhibiting David as the originator, and Solomon as the executive instrument. We must content ourselves with the result that the temple is of decisive importance in separating the priests from the people, and for gathering together and organising the order. [367] It appears that the lists of the priestly families were taken down in writing when the organisation of the order was concluded: Nehem. vii. 64. CHAPTER IX. THE LAW OF THE PRIESTS.