Chapter II

, p. 66; also Part II, p. 385, f.

[252] Ezra 5:16 states that Sheshbazzar laid the foundations of the house in the reign of Cyrus, but as Haggai and Zechariah give no hint of this, many scholars think there must be some error in the text.

[253] _Antiquities of the Jews_, XIII, xiii, 5.

[254] See the Mishnah, _Middoth_ 3:6.

[255] _Excavations at Jerusalem_, 16, ff.

[256] See Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XI, vii, 1; cf. also G. A. Smith, _Jerusalem_, II, 358-361.

[257] See Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XII, i.

[258] See Ecclesiasticus iii-v, vii, ix, xxiii, xxv, ff., and xxviii.

[259] See Eccles. 50:1-4.

[260] Cf. Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XII, v, 1.

[261] See Selah Merrill, _Ancient Jerusalem_, New York, 1908, pp. 83-88.

[262] See G. A. Smith, _Jerusalem_, II, 447-452.

[263] Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XII, v, 1.

[264] Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XIII, vi, 7.

[265] See