salem.

545 Perhaps "a gong" or "a bell." Some think it to have been a "musical
instrument," and others consider it to have been "an organ."

546 Some think "Machaerus" on the east of the Dead Sea, about fifty miles
distant from Jerusalem.

547 In each act of sprinkling, the priest, standing before a corner,
sprinkled the blood on two sides of the altar. And thus, in two acts
of sprinkling, he put the blood on its four sides.

548 Called the Shema. It consisted of the following three passages of
Scripture, as given in the next footnotes.

549 Deut. vi. 4-9.

550 Deut. xi. 13-21.

551 Num. xv. 37-41.

552 The lot for the incense was always arranged for a new man who had
never burned it before. It might come to a priest once in his
lifetime, and never again afterward. Luke i. 9.

553 The chambers for vestments had separate rooms for each of the
twenty-four courses, and separate wardrobes for each of the four
kinds of vestments.

554 About 37-1/2 gallons.

555 See note 5, chap. iii. 8.

556 The Delegates were appointed to represent the whole congregation of
Israel in the temple services.

557 Jehovah.

558 That is by substituting for the Name (Jehovah) the word "Adonai,"
except where "Adonai" and "Jehovah" come together. In such cases
"Elohim" is substituted for "Jehovah."

559 Lev. ix. 22.

560 Who had charge of the channels from the altar.

561 Ps. xxiv. 1.

562 Ps. xlviii. 1.

563 Ps. lxxxii. 1.

564 Ps. xciv.

565 Ps. lxxxi.

566 Ps. xciii.

567 A famous maker of incense.

568 Sparkling.

569 Burning. The watch at certain gates seems to have been hereditary in
certain families. Just as at the present time the custody of
Rachel's tomb is the privilege of a certain family in Jerusalem.
Each guard consisted of ten men, so that there were 210 Levites in
the twenty-one stations. The three more important places contained
guards of both Levites and Priests, thirty of each. There were
therefore 240 Levites on guard each night.

570 He rolled up his overcoat and laid it down for a cushion.

571 Rev. xvi. 15.

572 Obscurity.

573 Platform or rampart.

574 1 Mac. ii. 25.

575 So called either because Nicanor, a Pharisee, had the gate made in
Alexandria, and though it was thrown overboard from a ship in a
st