f a pint.

267 He is said to have been a Sadducee who rejected tradition. Alexander
Jannaeus, to show his contempt for the Pharisees, poured the water on
the ground. The people became excited, and pelted him with their
ethrogs or citrons till his body-guard interfered, and, as fighting
took place, some six thousand Jews were killed in the Temple.
Josephus, "Antiq.," book xiii. chap. xiii. 5.

268 Isa. xii. 3; John vii. 37, 38.

269 Galleries were erected for the women, and the men stood below them.

270 Ps. cxx. to cxxxiv. inclusive.

271 The signal for drawing water.

272 The orthodox worshippers in the Temple looked toward the west, or
Holy of Holies. The Baal or Sun worshippers turned toward the east,
and used the eastward position. Under the Christian dispensation
believers are directed to look to Jesus, who promises to be in their
midst (Matt. xviii. 20).

273 Ezek. viii. 16.

274 This is one of the very few specimens of Hebrew poetry, apart from
Scripture (dating prior to the destruction of the temple), which
have come down to us.

275 The priesthood was divided into twenty-four courses (1 Chron. xxiv.
7-19). During the feast all the courses ministered, and, as each day
the number of bullocks was decreased by one, the lambs were
redistributed so as to supply an offering for every course.

276 In the feast of weeks there were two leavened wave loaves (Lev.
xxiii. 17).

277 Those priests who were slow in attendance, as they were obliged to
share their perquisites with the whole priesthood.

278 The course Bilgah was fifteenth (1 Chron. xxiv. 14). Each course had
a ring to which the heads of the victims were tied, and also a
closet for stores. These were taken from the course Bilgah as a mark
of disgrace. During the persecution of Antiochus, Miriam, a daughter
of Bilgah, married a Syro-Grecian husband. When the Greeks took the
Temple, she struck the altar with her shoe, exclaiming, "O wolf,
wolf, how long art thou to consume the wealth of Israel, and canst
not preserve them in their hour of need!" It was supposed that she
must have learned something evil in her father's house, and the
whole course was therefore degraded. The Rabbis say that the courses
of the priests were first ordained by Moses, and that he established