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with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
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Verse 4. Unpolished, to correspond with the polished stones and cedar employed by Solomon. 3 Kennicott. 6:36. Menochius.—Prot. “great stones.” See Calmet. 5:8.—Charges. It appears that the Jews furnished money and meat to pay for the wood. Calmet. 1:4 and 3:7. Some annual sum might be assigned by Cyrus, either for the building, or for the daily holocausts. Calmet.
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