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At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
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Verse 27. Wall. Some time before, (Usher. Calmet.) or now, when the houses were completed. V. Bede. Tirinus.—Places, for greater solemnity. The ancients deemed “the walls and gates sacred things, the property of no man.” Justinian, l. sacra loca.—Ovid describes the superstitious rites, with which the Romans laid the foundations of their cities, on some lucky day.
Fossa fit ad solidum, fruges jaciuntur in imâ, and so forth Fast. iv.
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