Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . laios and customs of the jpeojple of Palestine* Phoenician historians give an account of a mar-riage between Solomon and a daughter of Hiram,Iving of Tyre. (See Tatian. Grnec. § 37.) Jewish writers pass lightly over the fact that Iliramthe Iving was not circumcised, and have a traditionthat because he was a God-fearing man, and assi
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . laios and customs of the jpeojple of Palestine* Phoenician historians give an account of a mar-riage between Solomon and a daughter of Hiram,Iving of Tyre. (See Tatian. Grnec. § 37.) Jewish writers pass lightly over the fact that Iliramthe Iving was not circumcised, and have a traditionthat because he was a God-fearing man, and assistedin building the Temple, he was translated alive intoParadise. Of Iliram Abif it is i-ecorded that he was of amixed race, Jewish and Phoenician, of the tribe ofNaphtali. His father—from whqm he inherited hiseminent abilities, and learned the details of his calling—was a Tyrian, skilled in the arts of workingmetals, wood, and cloth, for ornamentation in architec-ture, also articles for public and private luxury anddisplay. Hiram was appointed chief architect andengineer by Hiram, King of Tyre, and sent to Jeru-salem to assist Solomon. His title of Abif (ourfather) was given as a recognition of his dignity and* See Egyptian Mysteries, page 431. W>t. acquirements, and his exalted and useful position,which he adorned by faithful and excellent title was given after an ancient oriental custom—many instances of its observance being famihar toreaders of history, as that of Joseph in Egypt, whosays, God hath made me a father to Pharaoh(Gen. xlv. 8); and also in Maccabees (1 xi, 32), theterm is used as a mark of respect and esteem, andnearly all Roman coins have among other titlesthat of father, as given to the emperor. We have preserved but few details of the life ofIliram, King of Tyre. That he was master and over-seer of his people who were in the service of Solomonis recorded, and he was long remembered as such. A complete description of the Temple of Solomon
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