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A75905	A description and explanation of 268. places in Jerusalem and in the suburbs thereof, as it flourished in the time of Jesus Christ Answerable to each of the 268. figures that are in its large, and most exact description in the map; shewing the several places of the acts and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and his holy Apostles. As also of the Kings, prophets, &c. Very useful for the more clear and fuller opening of very many places in the prophets (as also in Josephus, and other histories) especially in the Gospels, and the Acts of the Apostles. Translated by T.T. Reviewed, and in many places rectified according to the Holy Scriptures, and some things further cleared: with additions of many scripture proofs: by H. Jessey. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl.	Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.; Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663.; T. T.	1653 (1653)	Wing A600aA; ESTC R229469	81,732	114

God with sacrifices did so wonderfully shine that they which stood a great way off might perceive it Heb. 7.25.26 Heb. 2.17 5 2. Jer. 31.20.32 Luke 15.20.21 And which is no lesse wonderfull the twelve stones which were on the Breast-plate did foreshew unto them which went to the war victory But this is more clear and profitable Here was typed out how our great High Priest bears up all his Israel by his mighty power and bears them all in his heart before the Lord who seeing them there hath bowels of compassion on them and remembers them continually Both the Reasonable Jer 52.13 Neh 7.65 Dan 9.24 25. and the Onyx also have ceased one hundred and five years say some yea above five hundred years before the Nativity of Christ to give their wonted shine and brightnesse Yea they were no more in use after the Babylonians burned the Temple 85. The Vaile was woven of Jacinth Exo. 26.31.33 36.35 2 Chron. 3.14 Matth. 27.51 Mar. 15.38 Luke 23.45 purple scarlet and fine silke in most beautifull variety and was adorned with Cherubims and all manner of flowers imbroydered thereon which hung at the gate before the most holy place and at the death of Christ was rent from the top to the bottome even in the midst The third Part of the Temple 86. THe Jewes Ile 1 King 6.3 2 Chron 3.4 Ezek. 40.7.48 Heb. 9.3 Joseph 8. Ant. 3. 15.14 6 ●el 7. Bel. 4.16 l. 2. cout Appionem which also is called the Entry the Hall the Holy Secular and Solomons Porch being the third part of the Temple Into the which men went up by soure steps whose pavement checkered with marble of sundry forts was open to the aire and uncovered and was compassed about with a wall made with three degrees of stones of sundry colours To the which were annexed great Porches broad and above threescore and ten cubits high borne up with marble pillars of fingle stones which were five and twenty cubits high the roof covered with Cedar The ins●t gates covered with gold shined most gloriously And it had three high gates whereof the first tended toward the East the second toward the South and the third toward the North every one of the which gates were shut with two silver doors thirty cubits high and fifteen broad but the West part had no gate but was inclosed with a whole wall And this was called the Jews Isle or Hall because only the Jews being clean and not polluted Luke 1.8 9. Joh. 10. Act 3 4 5. Jos 15. Ant. 14. 2 Bel. Jud. 16. 6 Bel 6. 7. Bel. 4. prayed there and heard the words of the Law In the which place Christ taught the people oftentimes and where the Jewes would have stoned him and Peter when he bad healed the lame man spake unto the people and converted five thousand men Before this Hall inclosed with a lattice there was a Table set containing this Law ingraven with letters of Greek and Latine Every stranger that shall enter into the holy place shall dye And the Romans had given authority to the Jews to put to death as well Romans as Jews which transgresse this Law The parts of the Jews Ile 87. THe Altar of burnt offering of brasse which stood in the midst of the I le open to the aire and uncovered Ex. 27.1.8.38.1 2 Chron. 4.1 Lev. ●1 15 6.9 9 7.8 Ex. 40.10 wherein that perpetual fire was daily maintained by the putting to of wood which fire in old time the Lord sent down from heaven when Aaron at the first time offered sacrifice in the Desart On the which Altar the Priests every day morning and evening burnt sundry sort of Male-beasts c. which were clean and without blemish as Sheep Oxen and Goats Turtles Pigeons and such like which were consumed with this holy and perpetuall fire for a burnt offering and odor of sweet savor unto the Lord. But Apocrypha fabulously saith how in the time of the Captivity of Babylon this perpetual fire was hidden by the Priests in a dry Pit or Well 2 Mac. 1 18.3● and being sought for by Nehemiah the Priest threescore and ten years after the same there could be no fire found in that place but a certaine thick water which by divine power at the prayer of Nehemiah was set on fire So saith Apocripha Neh. 8.8.9 Neh 12.26 in holy Scripture i● no word of this but Nehemia is called Tirshata or Governour and Ezra the Priest 88. Boaz and Jochin signifying strength and establishing two pillars of brasse of wonderful beauty 1 King 7.2 2 Chron. 3.15 two and thirty cubits high whose circumference or circuit comprehended twelve cubits which Solomon caused to bee made artificially and placed them in the porch of the Temple one at the right hand which hee named Jachin and the other at the left hand which he called Boaz. 89. The Laver of brasse a vessell of great capacity full of water placed by Solomon on the North side of the Temple 1 King 7.23 2 Chron. 4.2 Ios 8. Ant. 3. whereon were carved the pictures of Cherubims Lions and Oxen. In this the Priests washed the beasts which should serve for burnt offerings which neverthelesse were first washed in the Sheep-pool called Probatica 90. The house of Councel Mat. 26.3.27.1 Luke 22.66 at the South side of the Temple where was the assembly of the Elders of the people 91. The Closets 1 King 6.5.10 1 Chro. 9.26 Jer. 35.2 Ezek. 92.13 1 Mac. 4. Ios 5. Bel. 9.6 Bel. 6. or Treasuries were side houses long broad and high like towers In the which the Priests when they should enter into the holy place did put off their wollen garments laying them up till their service was ended wherein also they did eat the parts of the peace-offerings 92. The Sea of brasse containing very great store of water which Solomon made Exo. 30.18 38.8 1 King 7.23 2 Chron. 4.2 containing very great store of water which Solomon made and placed on the South side of the Temple upon twelve Oxen brasse wherein the Priests entring into the Temple to serve at the Altar washed their hands and their feet 93. The new Gate Jer. 26.20 36.10 which was in the I le of the Temple toward the South where Jeremy fore-shewing that the City and Temple should be destroyed was taken And where Baruch read before the people the Prophesie of Jeremi●h 94. The holy Gate 1 Esd 9.38 otherwise called the brazen Gate which being in the In-set part of the Temple opened toward the East before the which Esdras read the Law of God before the people and where the Rulers of the Jews a long time after that exhorted the seditious unto peace 95. The Porch of the Temple 1 King 6.3 7.6 2 Chr. 3.4 builded by Solomon before the Sanctuary the which was twenty cubits long and ten broad 96.

of the Target or Shield Bearers 2 Chron. 12.11 2 King 11.6 Ioseph 20. Ant. 15 was builded before the West-gate of the Temple where first the Jewes then the Roman souldiers upon the solemne feast dayes had the stations for the guard of the Temple LI. The Lysts or Tylt which was placed over against the South part of the Temple wherein horses by running Io● 15 An. 10. 17. Ant. 9 10 13.14 It. Bel. 21. 2. Bel. 2. agillity and swiftnesse were exercised And the Wrastlers and Champions did contend before the people who should run swiftest on foot with Chariots diversly drawn who should break most spears and in other masteries and feats of valiency Where Herod the King for the honour of Augustus Caesar ordained the game and prise of five years continuance appointing unto the Victors great rewards The same Herod when he should dye called all the more noble sort of the Jewes of all places within his dominion by an Edict threatning death to such as should not obey and caused them to be shut up in the Lysts to the end that after his death they all be-being there slain every house might have cause to waile even in despight of all Judaea LII The Mountain Moria Gen. 22.2 Mich. 3.12 1 Mach. 13. 16. chap Isa 10.16 Ioseph 15. Ant. 14. 6. Bel. 6. the which in another place is called the land of Vision and the Mountaine of the Temple and the Mountaine of the Daughter of Sion lying neer unto the East-wall of the City being very high stony and very steep round about In this Mountain Abraham being ready to offer up his son Isaac instead of him offered up a Ram which was taken by the hornes in a thicket This was the very same Mountain which David bought of Streuna or Ornan the Jebusite for six hundred shekels of Gold and erecting an Altar in his threshing flower he offered a burnt offering unto the Lord 1 Chron. 21. Jos 7. Ant. 13. 2 Chr. 3.1.36 which the fire from heaven consumed Afterward in the same Mountaine Solomon builded unto the Lord a most excellent Temple both for largenesse and beauty whereof mention shall be made hereafter LIII The first Wall the which was called the old Wall both in regard of the vallies Jos 6. Bel 6 7 c. and a hill which was aloft above them and also in regard of threescore Towers whereinto it was divided the which made it very defensible and strong LIV. Ophel which Josephus calleth Ophlam was a Tower of an exceeding height whose top seemed to reach unto the Clouds it was fortified with a Castle 2 Chr. 27.3 23 14 Neh. 3.26 27 Neh. 11.21 Jos 2. Bel. 18. 6. Bel. 6 7. 7 Bel. 13. and compassed about with a firm wall near unto the Temple notwithstanding it was without the wall which shut off the habitation of the Priests Herein dwelt the Nethinims Into this Manahemus the Tyrant flying was taken and slaine This same was at the last burned by the Souldiers of Titus LV. The Pallace of the Machabees 1 Mac. 13. builded by them on a very lofty place on the West side of the Temple from whence they which would behold the City and those things which were done therein Jos 17. Ant. 14. 20. Ant. 15. had a most pleasant and delectable prospect The which King Agrippa afterward exceedingly inlarged and made it a Court for himself from whence out of his Parlour he might behold whatsoever was done in the Temple 2 Bel. 2 16 17 7. Bel. 15. For the which cause the Rulers of the Jewes builded a very high Gate between that and the West part of the inner Temple to hinder the Kings prospect This thing both King Agrippa and Festus also the Lieutenant of the Country took in very evill part who also commanded them to pull downe the said Gate But the Rulers intreated that they might have leave to send Ambassadors to Nero the Emperour concerning this matter saying that they could not live if any thing were cast down of the buildings of the Temple The which liberty when they had obtained they sent Ishmael the chief Priest and Helchia the Treasurer and with them ten of their chief Rulers And Nero at the earnest suit of Poppea his wife a godly woman which shee made for the Jewes pardoned the building of the said Gate and permitted the same to stand LVI The Pallace of Pilate and of the Lieutenants of Rome Mat. 27.1 Isa 50. 53 63 Mat. 27. Mar. 15. Luke 23.3 Io. 18. Ioh. 19. adjoyning to the Gallery which lyeth on the North side of the Castle Antonia which Pallace was much more large lofty and fayrer then all the buildings of the City and had an ascent or mounting of eight and twenty steps of Marble Here when Christ was falsely accused and required to be crucified by the Princes and people of the Jews for that as they said he perverted the people forbad tribute to be given to Caesar said that he was Christ a King and therefore approved himselfe a seditious person Pilate condemned him to be whipped under the form of this sentence which was found in a most ancient Chronicle as followeth Jesum Nazarenum virum seditiosum Mosaicae legis contemptorem per pontifices principes sua gentis accusatum expoliate ligate virgis caedite Breid 21. Jul. Sal. Tom. 8. cap. 7. Pasch day 108 that is to say Take ye Jesus of Nazareth accused by the chiefe Peiests and Rulers of his own Nation to be a man seditious and a contemner of Moses Law strip him bind him and whip him Whereupon the souldiers of Pilate led him into the Judgement hall stript him before the whole band of souldiers and other people tyed him to a pillar beat him most cruelly with rods Mat. 27. Io. 19. and rent and tare his most tender body After this they put on him a purple Robe platted and in forcible manner broided on his head a crowne of sharp thorns delivered into his right hand a reed and in scorn saluted him as a King bending the knee before him many wayes mocked him they did spit on him they did buffet him and strike him upon the wounded head with a Cane LVII The Queens Pallace 1 Reg. 7. 9. 2 Chro. 8. Jos 8. Ant. 5. which Solomon most royally builded of precious and polished stones for the habitation of his wife which was Pharaohs daugher LVIII Solomons Pallace exceeding great and fair the which he builded in thirteen years magnificently and most sumptuously on the South part of the Mount Moria 1 King 7. ●0 of bright marble and Cedar trees supported with many pillars for his own habitation this he wonderfully garnished with gold and silver round about and made all the vessels thereof of gold In the same place afterward the Christian Kings of Jerusalem had their Pallace where first began the order of

the Templers LIX The Castle Pisan Sal. Tom. 7. cap. 1. compassed about with deep Trenches and Towers the which was builded on the West part of the City by the Christian inhabitants of a Town in Italy belonging to the Pisans at what time they had the Dominion of the Holy-Land Where first the Pisans after them the Saracens and now the Turkes doe exact of the Pilgrims of the Holy-Land sacrilegious tribute LX. The inner Fountain 2 Sam. 20. 2 Chron. 32. Eccles 48. Brocar Itin. 6. which King Hezekias made in the midst of the City at the North side of the Temple For hee brought into the City the waters of this Fountain from the higher Fountain of Gition by conduct pipes which were under the earth and made them to issue forth in this Fountain This Fountaine hee compassed about with a Well to water the whole City that the people in time of siege might not be distressed with the want of water LXI The Pool Probatica Ioh. 5.1.2 that is to say the Sheep-pool wherein the sheep and other beasts were washed that were appointed for sacrifice In Hebrew it is called Bethesda and corruptly Bethsaida that is to say the house of effusion because the rain waters ran into the same or rather Beth-chasda Sol. Tom. 8. cap. 5. that is The house of Kind-mercy so the Syriack It was situate between the Gate of the Valley and the Temple It was the most principal Pool or water of the whole City having five Porches which King Solomon made for the service of the Temple Pasch day 192 And this Josephus called Solomons Lake or Pool For in this Pool the Nathenims washed the oblations which they delivered unto the Priests to bee offered in the Temple The Water hereof was moved at certaine times by the Angel of the Lord and who so after the stirring thereof went first into the water he was healed whatsoever disease hee had Jo. 5.4 5. And therefore there lay a great multitude of languishing people in the Porches thereof as blind lame withered waiting for the moving of the water Among which number Christ healed a man which had languished eight and thirty years The Figures in this Book should resemble the Figures that are in the MAP OF JERUSALEM which are not Roman Figures but such as these that follow 62. The Old Fountain together with a River Isa 22. Jos 7. Bel. 24. which issuing out of the same runneth through the whole City into the brook Cedron 63. The Bridge and Porch with Gates Jos 14. Ant. 8. 15. Ant. 14. 1. Bel. 5. Item 2 Bel. 15 16. 7. Bel. 6.13 by which men went from the Gallery and from the Castle Antonia over the valley of Cedron into the Temple the which at the first the favourites of Aristobulus against Pompey and afterward the seditious against Florus cut off lest by the means of the Castle Antonia the Temple should be gotten 64. The Warders or Prison Gate so called Neh. 12.39 because certain of the Kings guard warded there at such time as the King entred into the Temple 65. The Horse-Gate so named Lyr. in Neh. 3. because men might ride so far as that place but then leaving their horses they went on foot into the Temple At the which place began the habitations of the Priests 66. The Gate of the Essens was scituate in the old wall of the City Jos 6. Bel. 6. 67. The first Gate whereof the Prophet Zachariah maketh mention Zach. 14.10 68. The Porch of Pillars scituate before Solomons Pallace the which was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits broad 1 King 7.15.21 and supported with strong Pillars 69. The Beast-Market called Probatica where Sheep Oxen and other beasts for sacrifice were sold in the open Market 70. The Pallace of Queen Bernice Act. 25. 26. Jos 2. Bel. 15 16. 17. sister of King Agrippa who with her brother at Caesaria heard Pauls supplication before Festus And afterwards paying her vows to God at Jerusalem she came bare-foot before Florus sitting in his judgement seat tyrannizing against the Citizens whom shee beseeched in vaine as concerning them 71. The Pallace of Grapta Jos 5 Bel. 9. the Neece of Izata King of the Adiabens which she built for her selfe Wherein afterward Iohn the Captain of the seditious abiding left there his money and spoils of Tyranny 72. The Pallace of Helen Ios 20. Ant. 2. 6. Bel. 7. 7. Bel. 13. Ease● 2 Hist Eccles 12. Act. 11.28 which exalted it selfe in the middest of the mountain Acra Shee being the Queen of the Adiabens which dwelt beyond Euphrates was converted from Gentilisme to the Religion of the Jews and came to Jerusalem to dwell where she being become a Christian at what time that great famine whereof Agabus prophesied in the dayes of the Emperour Claudius pinched the whole world but specially the land of Judea this good Queen I say at her proper costs and charge sent for great store of corne out of Aegypt which she distributed among the poor and needy at Jerusalem 73. The Pallace of Monobaz King of the Adiabens the son of Helen which was scituate in the East part of the City Ios 6. Bel. 7. 74. The Temple of the Lord otherwise called the Lord house and the Sanctuary 1 King 5 6 7.8 9 chap. Joseph 8. Ant. 3 2 Chron. 2 3 4 5 6 7 cha The which Solomon the peaceable King builded of the matter prepared by David his father and of elect hewn and pollished stones and of timber cut from Mount Libanus by the labour of more then a hundred fifty three thousand men in the mount Moria without any sound of Axe or Hammer in seven years Arist lib. 72. interpret so sumptuous and magnificent both within and without with shining gold that it was counted the miracle of the world Concerning the wonderfull excellency whereof nothing can be sufficiently spoken When Solomon dedicated this Temple the cloud and glory of the Lord filled it and the fire which came from heaven consumed the sacrifices which were offered therein As concerning the entrance of this Temple the same was contrary to the fashion now used being East-ward and the back part tended West whereupon the Priests and people prayed turning to the West and worshipped God herein with great reverence untill through the impiety of the Kings and people of the Jews it was prophaned with the pollutions of Idols oftentimes Therefore * Some compute the years about foure hundred and thirty 2 King 25. 2 Chron. 36. 1 Es 3.5 6. 2 Mac. 3. Ios 2. Bel. 17 10. 1 Mach. 4 6 13 chap. four hundred forty and one years after the first foundation thereof by the just judgement of God Nabuchodonozer King of Babylon burnt the same and so destroyed it that it lay desolate threescore and ten years But after that Zorobabel repaired the Temple again in excellent sort

with squared stones and the best timber in the same Mountain within the space of forty and six years And this also was of so great estimation that it was honoured throughout the whole world and was from all parts enriched and beautified with the greatest gifts and honours of Kings and Princes The which after three hundred fifty and four years was spoyled by Antiochus Epiphanes King of Syria and polluted with Idols In the third year of the contamination thereof the most valiant Captaine of the Jews Judas Machabaeus purged it and restored to the same again the golden vessels and the worship of God And that it might never more be defiled he did wal it about in manner of a Castle with deep Trenches with strong and high walls and with Gates and Towers both forcible and fair Ios 14. Ant. 8. 7. Bel. 4.9 Wherein hee being besieged a long time with one hundred and twenty thousand Gentiles could not be commanded But about one hundred years after this when that famous Captain of the Romans Pompey the Great fought against it he won it with main force and in the entring thereof he slew therein twelve thousand Jews Strabo Geogra l. 16. 1 Mach. 6. and Pompey himselfe with his Peers entring into the most holy place and beholding the Temple the Candlesticke and other things there of shining gold and finding also two thousand talents of the holy Treasure this heathen Prince moved as it were with a certaine godlinesse would not so much as touch any of them but the next day after the siege commanded the keepers of the Temple to cleanse the fame and to celebrate their lawfull and solemne sacrifices This selfe and same Temple being afterwards decayed Herod the A●calonit King of the Jewes by the space of nine years and a halfe repaired and beautified it with sumptuous buildings And according to the Prophesie of the Prophet Haggai even as the Church is preferred before a Synagogue and the blood of the Gospel is more precious then the gold of the Law greater was the glory of the second Temple Agg. 2 3 7.9 Luk. 2. Matth. 4. Johan 7.8 ch 10. c. then was that of the first because Christ with his presence doctrine and miracles glorified this For in this when he was a childe he was offered In this he sate in the middest of the Doctors In the pinnacle of this Temple he was tempted of the Devill when he fasted forty dayes and forty nights In this likewise he preached oftentimes and was vexed by the Jews All which things as they make much for the glory of the Temple so they did nothing availe but that the very same Temple in the year from the Foundation thereof under Zorobabel five hundred eighty and six * An. Dom. 72. by the Army of Titus Caesar after a doubtfull and bloody battel was won with great force and violence and so great a slaughter of Jewes made about the altar for burnt offerings that the blood of the slain ran like a River by the stairs of the Temple Jos 7. Bel. 9 10.18 and the Temple it selfe in the first brunt and fury of the battel was set on fire by a certaine souldier moved by divine motion not attending to the command of any even without the Emperours consent And by this burning a worke of all that ever was seen or heard of the most wonderfull and the ornament of the whole world the tenth day of the Month of August was consumed into ashes to wit even the very same day and month whereon aforetime the Temple was burnt by the Babylonians Euseb in Ch. 4. hist. Eccl. Yet for all this after threescore and five years the Jewes rebelling againe and going about to restore the Temple in the same place where it was afore Aelius Adrian the Emperour slew of them in one day five hundred and fourscore thousand Niceph. 3. hist Eccl. 24. and utterly rased the rest of the buildings of Jerusalem and levelled the mountaine Moria whereon the Temple was builded and made it even casting the rubbish and earth thereof into the vale Jehoshapat and into the Brook Cedron lest the City trusting to the defence of the Mountaine and Temple should rise up and rebell any more against the Romans Hee wasted also with fire and sword nine hundred and fourscore Villages But the Emperour Julian the Apostata Ruffin in Eus hist Eccl. l. 10. c. 37 38 39. Theod. 3 hist Eccl. 17. Z●zo 5. hist Eccl. 21. Niceph. 10 ●ist Eccl. 32 33. after two hundred and seven and twenty years to make the Oracle of Christ false which he had prophesied concerning the Temple that there should not be left one stone upon another gave unto the Jewes money out of the common Treasury and commanded them to build anew the Temple and to sacrifice there according to the Law of Moses The Jewes glad of this came from all parts of the world to Jerusalem and threatning grievous things against the Christians they prepared and got unto them skilfull work-men stones timber morter and all other things necessary for the building also they caused to be made silver mattocks spades and baskets and throughly purged the place where the Temple stood with such speed and willingnesse that their women also bestowed all their ouches taches bruches and other Jewels for the building and carried out from that place all the rubbish in their laps And when the Foundations were opened and cleansed the day following they should have begun their Foundation but the same night there came such an exceeding and vehement tempest that it carried away and scattered abroad their stone timber and morter with other their necessaries Over and besides this a great Earthquake shook all the stones of the old foundations of the Temple and dispersed them disordered the houses next adjoyning to the Temple by a down-fall and killed many Jews And when they which remained in the morning enterprised again to build a fire falling from heaven a flame also breaking forth from the foundations of the Temple destroyed more Jewes then before which either were busie about the work or which came thither to see and look on and all that day burnt and consumed into ashes their Mauls Hammers Axcs Spades and all other working Tools that nothing was left The Jews being yet obstinately bent the next night following a bright signe of the crosse appeared in heaven and the garments of all the Jews were marked as it were from heaven with figures of the crosse and replenished therewith as the Firmament with stars which when the day appeared they seeking to put out could not by any manner of means do it And thus being astonished and confounded they left off both their vaine enterprise and also the place So that by their wicked endeavour the divine Oracle was not onely not made frustrate but also more fulfilled and confirmed The Jewes being in this sort beaten from their enterprise the